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If you like following along with the bits from my life that I share - they're all here!
How to poach a chicken and make it last the family a whole week
Why poach a chicken? Two main reasons. Poaching means that your chicken meat will be beautifully moist, much more so than a roasted one, and with little effort on your behalf. And secondly, much less fuel is used to cook it, and little heat is generated, relevant if you are doing this in a kitchen in the summer.
Free groceries from Marks and Spencer
The goodies I bought with Marks and Spencers vouchers
How to stretch a chicken to last the whole week
How to stretch a chicken to feed the family for the whole week with 7 different budget stretching chicken recipes
Chicken and Chorizo Casserole
A very tasty casserole that doesn’t take very long to make. Freezes and reheats beautifully too.
Sweetcorn Soup Recipe
Ideal for lunches at home, or in a flask at work, this super easy sweetcorn soup recipe is nutritious, warming, filling and inexpensive.
The final update
A gallery of a final year, well lived
It’s nearly Christmas!
Visitors of the canine and penguin variety!
This Weeks Catch Up
Going to see Nutcracker, the Towner and the Hospice
Where We Are This Week
Where we are this week
A Hard Post To Write
A very difficult post to write
Sicilian Spaghetti Recipe with chicken, olives, sun-dried tomatoes, raisins and almonds
A quick and simple chicken spaghetti recipe using Sicilian flavours, from the series How To Poach A Chicken. This series takes a medium chicken and makes family meals from it for 7 days.