Dinner turned out really good! I was very proud of myself! (And house clean too, I had a panic and called mum cos the boys were being demanding, and we found ants in my cupboards and then River unscrewed the hundreds & thousands lid and made an offering to the ants.)
Which recipe did you want Suse?
Yay for you Nelle! Isn't it wonderful when a meal turns out as well as you hoped! As for River's offering to the ants - Euan does that too. He likes to share his lunch with the ants, and the floor, and the walls... *sigh*. Actually, I think that the ants have realised that they are onto a good thing and have moved in permanently.
Um, could I have both the chicken and roast vegie salad recipes please? Or is that pushing the friendship to ask for both?
Lisa - I hate commercial pizzas too - but our local Eagle Boys makes a half decent crap pizza, in that the ingredients are all recognisable and they are assembled on the pizza in a way that is slightly less haphazard than the usual fare. For $5 they're pretty good; they are better than the 'gourmet' pizza place up the road which charges four times the price. If we want gourmet pizza we make them ourselves - between DP and I we make a damn fine pizza.
Honey Almond Chicken
Really should be called honey soy chicken and it's not fancy but it's DELISH!
Chicken breasts
Mix equal parts soy sauce, honey and slivered almonds (recipe says 2tbspn each, but I like it swimming).
Pour mixture over chicken in oiled pan.
At 190C for about 30 min.
Warm Roated Vegetable Salad
I messed with the quantities, and the orig said capsicum, I used zucchini, and added some other things too.
- Quarter butternut pumpkin, cut into small pieces
- 2 large potatoes, cut into small pieces
- 1 zucchini, cut into pieces
- 1 onion (I used a red one), cut into eighths
- whole mushrooms (not huge ones)
- spinach leaves (I used baby spinach)
Put your pumpkin and potato in a covered microwave dish and nuke on 100% for 4 mins.
Mix all vegies (NOT spinach) together and lay them on a large oiled tray.
(I added rosemary, sesame seeds and pine nuts here)
Drizzle or spray oil on top.
Cook at 220C for about 30 mins (will be longer if you cut the vegies biggish).
Line a salad bowl with the spinach leaves.
Put the vegies in the bowl.
Add dressing - equal parts balsamic vinegar and honey, with a bit of olive oil.
It was pretty darned yum, and went with the chicken well cos that had honey in it too.
And just cos I'm a good kinda gal, and it's sooo hard to make Choc peanut sauce
mix 2 Snickers bars and 1/2 cup cream in saucepan until all melted, and reduce slightly to thicken.
Pour on ice-cream.
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Or is that pushing the friendship to ask for both?
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