Lunch break

I am late posting today as we had friends to lunch - a chance to cook more imaginatively (and eat more) than we'd normally do in the middle of the day and the week, and an excuse to sit much longer over a meal.

Cooking preparations were quite leisurely as we had a variation on Venetian chicken, so the bird went into the oven at breakfast time, cooking slowly until needed. It fell off the bone and into a pan of rice where it was mixed with its cooking juices, toasted pine nuts, sultanas soaked in sherry and lots of flat leaf parsley.

Of course we had to follow a relatively restrained main course with a far from modest pudding, so I made Nigella's Molten Chocolate Babycakes again.

And after all that, I've just been asked, "What's for supper, Mum?"

Comments

[Vanessa]

The chicken sounds mouthwatering - where can I find the recipe?

[Peg]

Yum! Could you share quantities required in the recipe, and also exactly how you did the chicken? Please!
All this reminds me that I must go out and plant the little parsley seedlings I bought into the garden!

[Charity]

I second Peg, that chicken sounds divine! :0)

[tara]

Mmmmm, so divine.

[a simple yarn]

My sentiments exactly re recipe. Here we are being tantalised by the photos and nary a recipe to be found. Now that's cruel, Karen! :-) So, will there be another post to follow at some point, hmmmm?

[sherry]

I was just wondering what to make for dinner. How tempting your chicken sounds! I do hope you will share the recipe. No matter what I end up making tonight, I will be thinking of your chicken.
[And being unhappy with my meal.]

[OhSoVintage]

What a delicious sounding meal. Another request for the recipe please.

[Kelly]

Hoping the answer to "what's for supper, mum?" was "take away," spoken from a comfortable chair.