Chicken & Sweetcorn Soup!

mmmmm. This took 90mins to make! I didn't have any creamed corn...so I decided to make my own! Delicious!

Creamed Corn recipe -
1 can sweet corn
2 teaspoons sugar
1 clove of garlic
250ml water
knob of butter
tub of cream fraiche- 150ml roughly

1. Melt butter in pan
2. Throw in sweet corn (just the corn - no juice!), add sugar and the finely chopped garlic
3. Sweat it for 10 mins on low heat
4. Add water, cook for 20 more minutes, medium low heat
5. Take out 2/3, whack it in a blender and add cream, till its silky smooth
6. Mix the unblended 1/3 of corn into the cream
7. Serve up hot or cold......OR proceed to making this chicken soup!!

Chicken & Sweetcorn soup recipe!

Can's worth of creamed corn
2 chicken legs (thigh & drumstick)
Thumb size chunk of ginger
2 spring onion sprigs
2 cloves of garlic
2 tablespoons soya sauce
1 teaspoon cornflour
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 litre water
1 chicken stock cube

1. brown up the chicken legs with ginger, garlic cloves & roughly chopped spring onions for 5 minutes
2. throw in the water, stock cube & 1 table spoon of soya sauce
3. simmer for 30 minutes
4. remove chicken legs, scrape off meat, then throw the skin & bones back into the liquid
5. simmer for 30minutes
6. sieve liquid
7. add creamed corn & meat
8. put a little water in a mug with the cornflour and stir well, before throwing that in too
9. mix & simmer
10. beat an egg with the sesame oil & a drop of soya sauce
11. mix that into the soup
12. garnish with spring onion
13. ?????
14. profit

Very tasty!

Dude, where's my rolling pin?

Somehow I managed to lose a rather hefty rolling pin on my way home from grocery shopping today. It only cost 99pence, so I'm not shedding any (real) tears over it - but still, I was looking forward to rolling out some clay today!!
I believe the pin dropped through a whole in the poorly constructed Wilkinsons' plastic bag, probably somewhere in the park.....thus not making any noise. So...someone's dog has a new chew toy. Fallen Rolling pin, we salute you.

Mmmmm tasty. French Country Style Chicken Breast Fillet.
Here's the recipe!

• 4 chicken breasts
• half a lemon
• chopped parsley leaves
• 4 tablespoons Garlic & Herb Cream Cheese
• Parma Ham
• Olive Oil
• Cherry Tomatoes
• New Potatoes

Cut a pocket in the chicken, stuff the parsley and cheese in. Wrap Parma ham round the chicken.
Chuck it all into a dish, liberally drizzle olive oil and squeeze the lemon juice everywhere. Add the squashed lemon half to the dish.
Throw into the oven for about 40mins, Gas Mark 5. Then chuck in the tomatoes & cook for 5 more mins. YESSSSSSSS.

Oh, and boil up the potatoes for 15 mins.
This concludes today's exciting instalment of my blog...where not much slacking actually takes place.