Eating at home.

Surprise, surprise!  We didn't eat out this week!  Instead, it was all home cooking.

Every weekday morning, Bob makes me muesli, yoghurt and fruit, or porridge with maple syrup, and a cup of tea.  However, on weekends I get specials like these poached eggs with spinach.

For dinner this past week, I made him seasoned and pan fried whiting, Tuscan cabbage and cherry tomatoes, and yam puree,

Louisiana chicken wings, cauliflower and cheese, carrots and baked potatoes:

Chicken, asparagus and mushroom pie with broccolini,

Vegetable curry and brown rice,

and pork hock seasoned with caraway seed, sea salt, garlic and beer, with red cabbage, apple and onion, and baked potato.

We didn't miss cafes and restaurants at all!

This week's recipe hasn't got a photo, sorry, because it would look the same as the one above, but is delicious.  It is one that my daughter taught me years ago and always goes down well.  I am not sure where she originally got it, but try it!

French Chicken and Mustard Pie

Ingredients:
2 onions, 3 tablespoons olive oil
4 diced chicken breasts (I often use thigh fillets because I like dark meat)
4 tablespoons whole grained mustard
1/4 cup cream
sea salt
 black pepper
400g puff pastry
1 egg yolk

Method:

Sweat the onions in oil until soft.
Add chicken and stir fry until lightly browned.
Stir in mustard, cream and seasonings, then cool.
Grease and line pie tins with pastry.
Cover with pastry lids and glaze with egg yolk.
Cook at 180 degrees for 45 minutes