Delicious impromptu lunch of proscuitto-wrapped grissini and chunks of parmesan sheared off a huge hunk (direct from italy - thanks muchly, kerrin) - goodbye, evil hangover!
Next up - home-made brownie and coffee
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February 05, 2010
Best-ever roast chicken + raspberry marscapone cheesecake
Dinner last night for Bruno's parents. I made best-ever roast chicken over baby rucola + wilted radicchio with balsamic + potato gratin + nusslisalat (lamb's lettuce) + raspberry marscapone cheesecake + espressos. We ate everything, it was so delicious, so savoury (except dessert, of course) that we ate everything.
I seem to have been extremely remiss in never posting my best ever roast chicken recipe on this here ol' blog. I can't quite believe that I haven't in the 5 or so years that I have maintained this blog. Sure I have mentioned it here and there, but I've never actually posted the 'recipe' (there is no recipe, really). The method I use comes from Simon Hopkinson's excellent cookbook 'Roast Chicken and Other Stories'. Don't bother with other recipes. this one is the best!
Recipes after the jump.
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Apple and blackberry muffins, this morning
It was cold, and grey, so I felt like baking. Juicy fat blackberries from last summer's crop and meek, mild apples - good mix.