Chicken tagine with apricots

  I’m a member of the Facebook group, ‘Slow Cooker Saddos’. It’s a gem for the foodie voyeur, if only for the dimly-lit photographs of unidentifiable casseroles. I remember shunning the slow cooker after Nigella branded it a crime against cooking (along with electric carving knives – I can agree with her there). I’ve sinceContinue reading “Chicken tagine with apricots”

Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic

Do you know what instantly brightens a grey day,  a work day, a Wednesday, a Tuesday or practically any day? Food. Food that comes hot from the oven; so mouth-wateringly full of flavour that it sedates all of the world’s troubles, leaving the diner left in a comatose state of food induced euphoria. A fewContinue reading “Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic”

Ahhh…rain

Okay then, seeing as in my last post I proclaimed my newfound Englishness, I’m going to do the proper thing and talk – very seriously – about the weather. Whilst I sit here on my balcony, swollen raindrops are beginning to fall from the dark and stormy sky. I can hear the excited chirruping of birds,Continue reading “Ahhh…rain”