Wednesday 4 September 2013

Chicken a la Alexandra

Me, hubby and the woof are caravanning on the Welsh border so whilst hubby surveys other caravanners in their habitat I last night spied on twitter a little recipe that took my fancy by @Hollywood_wife

Very kindly after a few exchanged tweets I have the recipe to try in the caravan tonight.  The lady in Gerard's bakery in Chirk let me have all her breadcrumbs today a lovely lady apologised for lack of crummage due to not many customers wanting sliced bread and in the second shop the local butchers where I purchased some very lovely chicken thighs I received another apology this time for having to pay 5p for every carrier bag.  Yes over the border in Wales shopkeepers have to charge 5p a bag and are quite embarrassed to do so.  I did tell them that down South it happens and depending on the quality of the shopping bag what used to be known as the St of the famous supermarket charges 5p or 10p.

Now in the local village garlic salt was not available I could have had Malaysian Pink salt or a blue salt so I opted for garlic mayonnaise as mayo was one of the ingredients.  So skin off my thighs (I wish although did walk 3 miles yesterday) I marinaded in garlic mayo, paprika and whole grain mustard.

Rolled in the Gerard's bakery fresh bread crummage seasoned with normal run of the mill salt we baked. I had mine with mushroom rice, hubby had his with Chinese rice....well the convenience store had variations of the microwaveable stuff on offer £1 a pack and since we have upgraded the home on wheels we have a microwave a novelty and useful when you wake up in the night it's digital display tells me if morning is nigh.

Back to the chicken very yummy in fact could bbq it if eating alfresco, not quite warm enough! Thank you Alexandra for the recipe we enjoyed very much. Xx







Horticultural show results

This weekend I supported the Wellingborough and District Horticultural Show by entering the cookery and floral art...results as follows:-

Cookery

Blackberry and strawberry jam with a hint of rosé water - 3rd place
Lemon curd - 2nd place
Gooseberry chutney - 1st place

Victoria sponge - 2nd place (used Jo Wheatleys recipe from Home Baking) - I lost 1st due to the quality of my jam!

Flower arranging

I gained a 1st, 2nd and 2 x3rd places.

My last competition this year is the Malvern Autumn show much sadness that the WI bakery competition has been cancelled still floral art bring it on....my category Dazzling.