Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Simplicity

I have been rather busy and run down lately, so our meals have been rather simple. But sometimes the most simple meals are the tastiest.
Frosty often enjoys just a bowl of sausages and chili onions -  We buy a great curry flavoured sausages from our local butcher, fry them up with some sliced onion and a few sliced chilies, and towards the end of cooking I remove the snags from the pan, slice them up and return to finish cooking off.

Scrambled eggs, tomato and bacon on fresh breadrolls - who says bacon and eggs is a "breakfast only food" ? :)
4 eggs, a splash of cream or milk, a few sliced shallots, some pepper, whisked together and poured into a small pot with melted butter. Set it to medium with the lid on, checking every 5 minutes or so with a small stir until cooked. Fry some bacon and sliced tomato in the mean time and serve on fresh rolls.

Chicken nuggets and wedges - Chicken breast fillet (or thigh if you prefer) cut into chunks, coated in a mixture of either bread crumbs or Southern Chicken Coasting with spices mixed in, I use Piri-Piri because we like it spicy :) Potatoes - cut into wedges, lightly sprayed with olive oil and generously sprinkled with Lemon Pepper Seasoning. Pop the wedges on a tray into the oven and bake at 180c - Once the potatoes are half way cooked, put the chicken in on a separate tray.. OR squash them all in with the potatoes if you're feeling extra lazy ;)


Sausage Rolls - Squeeze out sausage meat from your favorite flavoured sausage. I like to use our local butchers own recipe of a cheesy Spanish chorizo, very spicy.  Or if you like you can use the prepacked roll of Sausage Mince found in the meat section of the supermarket, just add some finely diced onion, garlic, pepper, parsley and whatever else you want. Grab some thawed puff pastry and cut it in half. Place some handfuls of meat on each half of pastry in the middle, not too much though, kinda like a sausage shape I guess, and roll up, sealing the ends. Brush each roll with a lightly beaten egg. Bake at around 180c for oh.. half an hour or so I guess? Until cooked, lightly brown etc.

A new favourite of Frostys is  Stuffed chicken fillets wrapped in bacon or prosciutto. - Butterfly some breast fillets and pound them flat. On one half of the fillet lay some sliced tomato, pineapple pieces, onion and mozzarella cheese, fold over the other half of fillet and wrap in bacon or prosciutto. Bake at 180c until cooked, around 20-30 minutes.  Another tasty stuffing is Ricotta cheese and baby spinach, but instead of flattening the chicken fillet, leave it hole but cut a small pocket on the side to stuff tasties into.

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