Do you have days when you just don’t feel like touching and eating
any meat? Yesterday was one of those days for me. While I do love
poultry and meat, I do occasionally feel like a good vegetarian meal
such as Vegetable Ragu.
This year I started learning to make my own pasta sauce. Not only are
they surprisingly easy, they also taste fresher and healthier. This
vegetable ragu recipe from good old BBC Good Food is a gem as it is so cheap and easy to make.
Since recipes aren’t set in stone, I omitted celery and red lentils
in my version. I added dried basil and cayenne pepper to spice it up a
little. And I’m currently in love with balsamic vinegar so I was rather
generous with it too. As it cooked on the stove, the ragu was bursting
with sweet smelling vegetables – the perfect healthy comfort food on a
cold day.
This is to me the fun part about cooking – not restricting yourself
to whatever the recipe calls for and taking initiative to tweak it to
your preference.
Where we have fun in the kitchen trying and testing all the great recipes out there
4 December 2013
3 December 2013
Jamie Oliver's Roast Chicken Recipe (half-arsed)
Today I tried out a Jamie Oliver's recipe – Perfect roast chicken.
I do find myself avoiding recipes from celebrity chefs because 99% of
the time their recipes are just far too fancy and complicated for my
liking. However, this recipe has proven otherwise.
I tweaked the recipe by spreading herb butter under the skin of the chicken and added some dried thyme with the bunch of fresh rosemary and lemon in the chicken’s cavity.
The result is a crispy-skinned chicken that’s really juicy on the insides. Jamie Oliver didn’t lie about that!
So why did I call it half-arsed?
I got tired in the evening from walking around the Christmas market and couldn’t be bothered to make roast potatoes. I would have put in the extra effort if I had mint sauce, the magic that makes roast potatoes taste heavenly, to go with them. Taking the easy way out, I threw some garlic bread in the oven to serve with the perfect chicken roast.
Seriously, this recipe is amazing! Give it a go if you have the time!
I tweaked the recipe by spreading herb butter under the skin of the chicken and added some dried thyme with the bunch of fresh rosemary and lemon in the chicken’s cavity.
The result is a crispy-skinned chicken that’s really juicy on the insides. Jamie Oliver didn’t lie about that!
So why did I call it half-arsed?
I got tired in the evening from walking around the Christmas market and couldn’t be bothered to make roast potatoes. I would have put in the extra effort if I had mint sauce, the magic that makes roast potatoes taste heavenly, to go with them. Taking the easy way out, I threw some garlic bread in the oven to serve with the perfect chicken roast.
Seriously, this recipe is amazing! Give it a go if you have the time!
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