101 Things Every Cook Should Cook
This blog is packed full of my favourite dishes. Recipes are really easy to follow, there are great cookery tips and even a bit of food news.

Souperior
Fahara is a fellow blogger living off her leftovers! She has just started studying at Leiths School of Food & Wine so has become a poor student again. I’m looking forward to her tales about Leiths.

A Slice of Cherry Pie
I like Julia’s idea of running a monthly ’In the Bag’ competition. This month it’s leeks, eggs and cheese. All you have to do is tell Julia what you would make with those ingredients.

The Foodie List
The Foodie List is a round up of foodie stuff from the UK. I keep up to date with it for food events and special offers.

My Zero Waste
I really enjoy reading about the Green family’s attempts to reduce the amount of waste they send to landfill each week.

Hannah’s Country Kitchen
Hannah was a Masterchef finalist in 2007. Her recipes are imaginative and the photographs of her food are mouthwatering!

Allergycooks
This is a great website for coeliacs and allergy sufferers. All the featured recipes are free from wheat, egg and dairy products.

Eat the Seasons and Veg Box Recipes
Are the perfect sites for providing me with inspiration for using up my veg box.

Greedy Gourmet
A really good read. One woman’s journey to find new scintillating recipes containing the “oomph” factor. Check out her Caribbean Chickpea & Sweet Potato Casserole – perfect food for the cold British winter!

Coffee and vanilla
This blog is about simple family-friendly European & Caribbean cuisine and has an inspirational section on lunchboxes.

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On my way home from a late meeting, I bought a ready-roasted chicken to have with salad and baked potatoes. But I hadn’t bargained on The Husband being uncharacteristically on the ball. He had also bought one and while he gets top marks for thinking ahead I’ve now got to figure out what to do with it all.

There’s some chorizo in the fridge and peppers and prawns in the freezer, so a jambalaya would be easy. Or I could use my emergency packet of puff pastry and knock up a chicken and leek pie to freeze for the weekend, and the little boys could have chicken and chips or chicken pizza muffins.

With all this chicken it’s definitely off the menu next week, or I suspect there’ll be a family mutiny!

If i’ve still got chicken leftover, I may indulge in Potted Chicken which is a lovely old-fashioned way of preserving meat or fish and a great way to use up leftovers. There are lots of different ways to do it, using various herbs and spices, a splash of wine or brandy or a squeeze of lemon juice, but the fundamental idea is simple. It is really just a mixture of chicken and butter, made into a smooth paste either by pounding by hand or whizzing it up in the food processor. It’s great for spreading on hot toast and I can freeze it, which means I could bring it out again in a couple of weeks when they’ve stopped complaining that it’s chicken tonight, again…

More chicken recipes…

Lemon chicken & pea risotto
Chicken tonnato
Chicken & tomato spiced curry
Creamy herbed chicken

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It’s Chicken Tonight!