My first blog and I can't actually believe that I'm doing this. I suppose the idea came from watching Michael MacIntyre (very funny!) hosting a New Year bash where Jamie Oliver made an appearance. You maybe watched it too....anyhow they ambushed different people off the street and tried to guess whether or not they had Jamie Oliver cookbooks and I have to confess that I have a few.... A wash of guilt came over me as I thought about the shelves of cookbooks that I look at from time to time but don't use as much as I should so I resolved to try a new recipe out each week.
January 4th - The 'do more exercise' resolution and the 'no wine till the end of January' resolution had already been kicked into touch and that only left the wine fuelled idea of a recipe a week so I decided to go for it. Pressure was on - daughter's friend over for tea and his mum is an awesome cook - but I pulled out a favourite cookbook (Annabel Langbein's The Free Range Cook) and decided that it needed to be easy....Baked Lemon Grass and Chilli Chicken. Mixing sweet chilli sauce with some lime juice, fish sauce, crushed garlic and pouring over the chicken was simplicity itself and the result......lovely! Finely grated lemon grass is not 'widely available' where I live (on an island off the west coast of Scotland) but I always alter recipes a bit anyway so a bit of lemon zest hit the spot! So 1 down, 51 to go!!
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