… Garlic & Rosemary Chicken
I’ve taken the 15 Minute Meal making on the road again today. Tonight i’ve come to visit some friends from my last church and I’m cooking for Colin, Dawn, Josiah (who is tonight’s photographer) and Bethany. After seeing Jamie cook this one on TV, they specifically asked if I could cook this for them. I have also seen this one on TV and it does look great. I’m quite excited to cook it.
With moving house on Monday, I have had to be a bit organized with the next few meals. I went shopping this morning to get the ingredients for five meals. When I have bought food for two, three or four meals before I have always had to go to at least two shops to get the ingredients, sometimes more. Even when I’m only buying for one meal it can often mean going to at least two shops. In part this is because i’m being quite fastidious with the shopping and if I wasn’t doing this as a project I would probably buy a substitute ingredient, instead of going to another shop just to get one thing. Today however I managed to get everything at one shop. Well done Asda.
Tonight it felt a little easier cooking in someone else’s kitchen than it has done before. I don’t know if that’s because I’m getting used to doing this a little now? Colin and Dawn have a nice kitchen to cook in.
This is a fun one to cook. The chicken smells great as you cook it with the garlic and rosemary and chillis. The pesto smells really lovely too as it whizzes up in the food processor. By the way I saw Jamie to a neat little trick on TV the other day with green beans. Normally you opening the pack, line up a few of the beans, then cut the stalks off those few beans (and repeat). Jamie just forced them to one end of the pack, took a knife and sliced through the stalk end, packaging and all. I did this tonight and it worked perfectly. You should try it.
There is a fiddly bit. The lasagne sheets come in a packet where each sheet is separated by a layer of paper. It takes quite a bit of time to separate the lasagne from the paper.
As with a lot of these dishes there is quite a bit to bring together at the end. The dish is served on a lovely old platter, which Colin has been eating his Christmas turkey from since he was a child.
This was a fun meal that tasted really lovely and it was great to catch up with some friends.
Who with: Colin, Dawn, Josiah and Bethany
How long: Fifteen minutes and fifty non seconds
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