I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Jelly_Biactol

Sweet Potato & Peanut Curried Chicken
- recipe by Georgina Fuggle, for anyone buying the Aldi Super6 sweet potatoes

"We are born knowing that some ingredients belong together: pork and apples, strawberries and cream, eggs and bacon. Others happen upon us later in life and we wish we'd discovered them earlier. May I present sweet potatoes and peanut butter! The potatoes break down during cooking, leaving the chicken with a deliciously sweet, thick sauce. Go on, I dare you!"

PREP TIME 20 MINUTES
COOKING TIME 40 MINUTES
SERVES 6

1 tablespoon vegetable oil
12 skinless, boneless, free-range chicken thighs, kept whole
1 tablespoon butter
2 large red onions, finely sliced
3 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
1 teaspoon dried chilli flakes
3 heaped tablespoons organic crunchy peanut butter
1 tablespoon mild curry paste or 1 teaspoon mild curry powder
1 tablespoon tomato puree
800g chunky sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 3cm cubes
400mI coconut milk
1/2 bunch coriander, chopped
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper


1. Heat the oil in the bottom of a heavy saucepan. Fry the chicken thighs in batches until each is just beginning to turn golden; this should take a few minutes on each side. Set the chicken aside, covered, while you crack on with the base of the recipe.
2. Melt the butter in the saucepan and add the onion, garlic and chilli flakes. Fry over a medium heat for a couple of minutes until soft and steamy but not coloured. Stir through the peanut butter, curry paste and tomato puree and heat for a further minute. Ensure that all the ingredients are nicely incorporated.
3. Add the sweet potatoes, pour over the coconut milk and give everything a good stir. The coconut milk should reach roughly half way up the pan, and don't worry that it doesn't cover the sweet potatoes. Bring to the boil and reduce the heat to medium. Cover and allow the potatoes to simmer for 10 minutes.
4. Return the seared chicken thighs to the pot and continue to simmer for another 15 minutes until the meat is thoroughly cooked through. Season as you wish. Just before serving, stir a good clump of chopped coriander through the pot.

From 'Take One Pot' by Georgina Fuggle - lots of tasty, tempting and super-simple recipes to cook in one pot (recommended!)
http://www.kylebooks.com/display.asp?kyt=9780857830708

Kirri

JB - seen this one? Looks good..

http://mouthwateringvegan.com/2013/04/07/my-vegan-burger-king/

Edwardia

Evening all, I've been asleep most of the day. At least it's a NSD.

OH gets to eat the organic NZ lamb leg steaks I bought for my birthday and I get organic tomato soup.

IN zero
OUT soup

On the hair debate, I coloured my hair once and had it done once. I would spend a lot of money on hair cuts when younger but I'm growing it now so just get ends trimmed occasionally. £145 would be more than a week's shopping. I could fly to Paris for less than that or buy a vintage handbag.

Florenceem

Didn't get to post last night.
Out of freezer - pork steaks, stir fry and curry + naan bread.
In - nothing!
We had HM egg/bacon pie + HM wedges and stir fry cabbage/garlic/onion last night for dinner.
Today we had no workmen here.
No freezer movements.
Dinner was braised pork steak with roast potatoes, roast parsnip, carrots, onion and gravy.

Sequeena

I have been in my freezers today and I've run them down far further than I thought :eek: I still have lots of white fish fillets but other than that there's some veg, chips, a tub of ice cream and there were some fish fingers which I used up today.

Oh my. Guess I can transfer everything over to the fridge freezer so I can defrost the chest freezer!

Kirri

Edwardia wrote: »

On the hair debate, I coloured my hair once and had it done once. I would spend a lot of money on hair cuts when younger but I'm growing it now so just get ends trimmed occasionally. £145 would be more than a week's shopping. I could fly to Paris for less than that or buy a vintage handbag.

It used to be a choice to dye my hair but now it's more a necessity..
I really don't want to have to spend that, I'm not into spending money on anything!!

Lip_Stick

Morning all.

Made the mistake of going to Tesco yesterday and spending £12. Most of it on stuff for ds' lunches, but also on crap like a new york cheesecake which I shouldn't be eating lol. Also spent another £1.70 at a green grocers. Nothing went in the freezer tho.

Tea last night was the roast duck with orange and apricot stuffing. Served it with wedges, sweetcorn, & broccoli. Bought a finest fresh peppercorn sauce but didn't rate it at all, when you compare to the one you make from M&S.

Taking ds and his cousins to McD's for tea tonight.

Kirri - You can get the train up here to Yorkshire from about a tenner. So you could come here, get your hair done, buy a weeks groceries and still have change for a cuppa and the train fare home out of that £145! :eek:

Jelly_Biactol

Kirri wrote: »

JB - seen this one? Looks good..

http://mouthwateringvegan.com/2013/04/07/my-vegan-burger-king/

No I haven't - thanks:T

(now to find out what 'asafoetida powder' is:))

Welsh_Poppy

Afternoon

In
Nothing

Out
Mash potato,lentil burger

Dinner is

Fish pie and garden peas for OH ,I am having glamorgan sausage and mash.

tootallulah

Out - chicken thighs, bacon, pate, bread, soup.
In - prawns and scallops

Hmmmm not yet quite going to plan!