Jun. 19th, 2021

purplecat: Mix of courgette, chicken and rosemary (General:Food)
Crossposted to [community profile] cookbook_challenge.

From The Roasting Tin around the World by Rukmini Iyer

Ingredients )

Method )

Changes, Mistakes and Substitutions

I'm not sure I can really claim to have cooked this. I have a similar recipe in another cookbook called Roasted Ratatouille Chicken which is much like this (aubergine instead of fennel) but without the pesto. I know from long experience that the chicken breasts will dry out unless diced and cooked for a shorter time and wasn't convinced that the pesto would magically stop this happening. So I diced the chicken breasts, tossed them in the pesto and breadcrumb mixture and cooked on top of the veg for 20 minutes.

Oh, and I had no fennel or spinach.

Verdict

A nice variation on Roasted Ratatouille Chicken which I already have in regular rotation as a meal.
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I've been seeing this popping up on my flist. [personal profile] trobadora seems to be the origin and I thought I might as well give it a go. The concept that I might actually answer a question a day for a month is frankly laughable, but presumably I can let it take longer. Anyway Q1 is: "What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?".

To be honest, not a lot. There were some big changes a year or two back. Work got busier and fic writing took a nosedive. It's two years, I think, since I attempted Yuletide, and I only just staggered through Public Call and the Primeval Denial Secret Santa last year, though the fact that my father died shortly after sign-ups may have been a contributory factor there.

However, a year ago today, I was in the middle of the fall out from the first lockdown and, among other things, had stopped reading fic altogether. Since Christmas, I've been slowly getting back into it. At the moment I'm mostly reading my way through stuff posted last Autumn. I have hopes of catching up with saved fic around Christmas - but at least I'm reading again. I don't know about writing though. I'll definitely attempt Public Call again, apart from that we shall see - work is not going to be getting any less busy.



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