… Wicked Mole Sauce, Rice and Veg
So I’m moving to Bath in about five weeks. I did a deal with my mum – I could store some of my stuff in her loft, if I board out her loft. That’s what this weekend is about. The loft has been boarded out, the first carload of my stuff has been moved up there and now I am cooking.
My sister, Selina, has had her eye on this meal for a while, so I’ve saved it for her. She’s here tonight so it’s time to cook it.
Normally when I cook away from home, I am really very prepared. I have all the ingredients bought and I have any bits of kitchen equipment I don’t think my host will have with me. Tonight I am not prepared. So, after the DIY tasks are done, it’s a quick shop and then cook. Or it should have been. However buying the Okra (ladies fingers) proves unsuccessful in the supermarket, so it’s a detour to an Asian supermarket to try to buy the Okra … they have it so all’s well. The other issue is the lack of dried Chipotle chilli, which I can’t get in ether shop so I substitute some chipotle paste instead.
In general the cooking went quite smoothly. The time taken was awful. The worst one yet. Everything seemed to go quite well. I guessed it would be one of those that went a bit over time … but it was one that went badly over time.
I haven’t actually looked back over all the dishes, but I do get the feeling that I miss most often with the chicken dishes and I do again today. Badly. The worst time to date I think.
The chicken goes in quite late into the recipe (almost two thirds of the way through the written recipe). You poach the chicken, which I know is a little unusual, but I really like it. It keeps it very moist.
It is however not cooked in time. Everything else is, or at least nearly is, done in time. It’s a horrific ten minutes late … but it’s a good one. There is chocolate in the sauce. A bit odd (before today I’ve had chocolate in sauces with venison but not much else savoury) but nice.
Bad time – good meal. I can’t blame the foreign kitchen really – I spend the best part of my Christmas holiday cooking in it so its not like I don’t know the cooker and where things are …
Who with: Mum, Gordy, Selina, Matt and Gav
How Long: Twenty Five Minutes and Forty Two Seconds
