Hubbys chicken casserole

Posted on September 15, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged casserole, Chicken, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2063, Food, Garlic, overpowering, pungent, TasteLeave a comment

Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.

One day hubby turned up from his work at a pottery with a very large casserole pot. He’d bought it and wanted to cook for friends.

We decided to make a chicken casserole and invite a few friends over. I was working that evening so he said he would prepare it. I told him what to do, put the chicken in the casserole pot, add carrots, potatoes, onion and a clove of garlic.

I came home to hubby and our guests. He opened a bottle of wine and we decided to serve the food. Unfortunately the smell of very pungent garlic wafted from the pot. My hubby had put in a whole bulb of garlic in by mistake. We were only young and were not used to the strength of the garlic. The flavour was too strong for us. I think we ended up having fish and chips from the chips shop.

Cooking!

Posted on August 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged ankle, aubergine, Chicken, Cooking, Courgette, crutches, Food, Foot, Leg, mussels, Rice, Tomatoes, VegetablesLeave a comment

Just managed to cook! A simple recipe, two carrots chopped, half an aubergine chopped up, half a courgette (zucchini). I set a pan of basmati rice boiling while I put a couple of chicken breasts in another pan and fried them. Then I added the vegetables, added a large flat mushroom, added salt, oregano, and garlic granules. When the chicken was part cooked I cut it up into small chunks. I had some cooked mussels out of the fridge that had defrosted overnight, I added them to the food.

Then I deseeded a single chilli and added that, I spooned cooked rice into the pan and added half a tin of peeled plum tomatoes. In all everything cooked on a low heat for about half am hour.

Did I mention? I stood up to do it, put my crutches to one side. I felt a bit unbalanced, but I’ve got to try and do things. And the meal was lovely. Hubby carried the plates into the living room for me.

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Sprouts popping!

Posted on December 25, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chicken, Christmas Dinner, Cooking, Dinner, Food, Fun, green vegetables, Humour, Life, Sprouts, VegetablesLeave a comment

A sprout tree, that’s what my hubby bought for Christmas Dinner. I wasn’t sure how to cut the sprouts off this knobbly stick. I don’t have sharp knives so they are hard to cut off. When I tried the springiness in the branch they were on I suddenly had a sprout popping up the air! It flew up and landed on the floor, rolled sideways, and ended up under the fridge freezer. Cue some scrabbling with a spoon to get it back out! It happened again with the next one so I realised I needed to hold the sprout with one hand and cut it off with the other. I didn’t want to use the whole sprout tree today, ten ot twelve sprouts are enough, but the branch was too long. I could not cut it in half so hubby snapped it across his knee after I’d tried to cut through it.

I part cooked them in the microwave and now I’m toasting them with out Christmas chicken (the turkeys for sale were four times more expensive).

Food

Posted on December 4, 2021December 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chicken, Courgette, Evening meal, extra garlic, extra turmeric, Food, food box, food order, green beans, raita, TastyLeave a comment

I just made a very nice curry with bombay potatoes, raita, mixed garlicy vegetables and chicken.

I was using one of the meal boxes that get delivered by post. My friend have it me because she had already got food in and she decided she didn’t need it.

Unfortunately I didn’t take a photo, by the time I had eaten it I realised it was too late. I added extra vegetables (courgette and fresh tomatoes) to bulk it out a bit, I’m trying to add vegetables to our meals to make them healthier. I don’t know if I would ever order a food box myself, I don’t know how much it cost as it was a gift. The meal was very tasty, but I added extra garlic and turmeric.

Out for food.

Posted on May 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Balti, Chicken, Curry, dupiaza, Fish, Food, king prawns, Lamb, Mushroom, Restaurant, Sangam, Tasty2 Comments

Just back from a delicious meal at Sangams balti House in Stoke-upon-trent, the town Stoke-on-Trent City is named after.

I had a King Prawn and Lamb balti, and a garlic nan. My friends had a fish dupiaza and a Chicken and mushroom dupiaza. There are two Sangam Balti restaurants here. I think because they needed more space they were so popular.

There is no alcohol served on the premises but you can take your own. The portion sizes are good and the food is hot and tasty.

Worth a visit if you are in town.

Penkhull won the semi final

Posted on September 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Chicken, Cockerel, Flag, Green, Penkhull, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Tiree, Vexillological, YellowLeave a comment

We won the semi final although someone said our flag looks like a bread wrapper! Now we are in the final next Tuesday against Tiree. I think it looks like a beautiful place, perhaps we will visit one day. However I can’t help hoping Penkhull win.

In my previous post describing the flag I forgot to say the blue colour represents the blue of Spode pottery. This iconic firm closed some time ago, but I have an art studio on the spode site so I feel doubly connected to Penkhulls flag. I will try and find the full description of what it symbolises.

Mallaband-Brown

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