Friday Night Cooking

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The Sea Bass thread gave me an idea - going to experiment with proper cooking tomorrow. Only problem is my flat has two hobs and a microwave so we'll have to get by with that and a microwavable slow cooker (best invention ever).

I need ideas for things to cook - preferably involving chicken since I have stacks of the stuff in at the moment :)

Help!
 
I'd just try googling a few recipe sites - I often do that if I am a loss for soemthing to cook. Failing that Nigel Slaters recent series had a few good recipes and he is easy to follow - would imagine his book is out by now.
 
No oven? Wok and roll.

Spring rolls that is. Buy the wrappers from a Chinese supermarket. Wok thin strips of whatever you like - including Chicken by the sounds of it. Lay them in the wrappers, roll them up, then fry them in a pan of oil.

If you haven't got a Chinese supermarket, then you can make the wrappers yourself using flour and water mixed until it is a bit like a watery pancake mixture, then pour into a frying pan (holding the pan on an angle so it stays really thin). It's quite tough to make good ones mind (but it's dirt cheap so you can get plenty wrong).

Serve with some Thai dipping source.
 
Pop into Waterstones or WH Smug's, Martin, and look around in the Cookery section. For the equipment you've got, I'd suggest 'one pot meals', stir fries, and microwave cooking. You can do a great deal more than just heat up Tesco's finest in one of those - you can steam fish and vegetables a treat in moments, and even make cakes, if you want to. Buy a wok, as betsmate suggests, and you can zip up lovely fresh Thai, Indian, or Chinese meals in a few minutes, and it all goes straight onto the plate from one utensil - super savings on washing-up! By the way, totter down Kensington Gardens, here in the North Laine, and check out the fab Asian supermarket for Indian, Chinese, Moroccan, Thai, Malay, South African, world without end, spices and herbs, dry cereals, pulses, spaghetti, rice, etc. Loads and loads of ingredients to make cooking tasty and interesting - and not expensive, either.
 
You seem to know your stuff - krizon, I love you. Your the one for me. Now me a dear and stick the kettle on.
 
Rashers are very tricky. I lost a friends frying pan one day attempting to cook Galtees finest.
 
Whats a grill? I know what a grilling is, I got one the last time I woke up next to my dog and my girlfriends sister...
 
Ohhhh, Gearoid, if only we'd met forty years ago, when I was a slender, bright-eyed young thing and you were a... ahhh... perhaps not such a great idea, come to think of it. But here's your crispy bacon buttie and a steaming strong cuppa, dearie.



That'll be £7.50, thank you, sweetheart. What? You think I do this shit for free?
 
Lidl: chicken breast fillets (c£4 for 700g or three large breasts - more than enough for Gearoid), jar of sweet/sour sauce, jar of korma or hotter curry if you prefer, 4x150g pots of natural yoghurt, packet of basmati rice. If you're cooking for one you'll get six meals out of that. Remember to add half a pot of yoghurt to the curry sauces for that wee bit extra smoothness. You could probably buy a decent bottle of wine or cava as well and still have change froma tenner.
 
Somerset chicken

Pan fry chicken breasts/thighs/legs until golden on out side, then remove to a plate to rest, (no need to cook through)
Add some chopped onion & fry until soft
Add some chopped apple cooking or eating & cook for a couple of mins,
Next add some cream double pref, a bit of mustard, S&P
then add a splash of cider
Give it all a good stir then put the chicken back into the pan & allow to slowly cook through & the sauce to thicken
 
Mmm, that sounds yummy, Aldaniti. Serve with colcannon, perhaps, and some green beans? Where did you say you lived? :D
 
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