Ok as this is my first post I will try not to rant too much!! I just have to mention the fact that it is the New Year, and that means it is time for the annual diet. I say annual diet, coz psychologically speaking it feels like it always has been an annual event. However the truth of it is, it has been a bloody never ending life event. Yes dieting for me has been a roller coaster from hell. Up down, up down, up up up, down down down, up, down a bit and back bloody up a bit!!
Why oh why was I blessed with a love of food/cooking/eating. Why couldn't I have been an athlete and been a slave to the exercise? Answers on a postcard please..........
My love of all things edible started at a young age. I am now so bloomin old, that I am of the generation that enjoyed school dinners. Oh yes I loved 'em, honest sir, really!! My real favourites were things like meat pies which were cooked in long rectangular tins, with the most amazing crumbly pastry. Of course me being me enjoyed the pastry more than the meat and always used to ask for the corner piece of the pie, which had extra pastry. I still adore a decent pie......not I might add that pie and mash stuff that the other half loves.....no no no, they are quite simply tasteless.
Just after Christmas I made the most amazing pie. I cant make pastry myself anymore, coz the arthritis in my hands make it very painful when 'rubbing in' and kneading. I could of course use my newish food processor, but truth be known that I couldn't be bothered, when there is perfectly adequate ready rolled puff and shortcrust pastry available in the fridges at all good supermarkets! Oh and it is a Delia cheat so it must be ok.
Anyway, I digress. I got Gordon Ramsey Cooking for Friends book for crimbo from my lovely son. In it there is a recipie for Cornish Chicken Pie. Well I adapted it a bit, by sweating shredded leaks in butter until soft and sweet, and adding then to the chicken/mushrooms/onions/left over ham. I also tweaked the cream sauce by adding a rather large glug of chardonnay. Anyway the result was the most amazing chicken, ham, leek and mushroom pie. Honest it was comfort food big time! Even my son loved it and boy is he fussy. So this was definately one to cook again.
And I will........just as soon as this diet is over. Sorry what I actually mean, psychologically speaking, is just as soon as this healthy eating plan has become a natural way to live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for ever, and ever and ever and ever and ever!!!
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