Читать книгу The Vicar’s Wife’s Cook Book - Elisa Beynon - Страница 36
A simple Sunday
ОглавлениеThese recipes are intended for two: a tired two. Perhaps two people who are a little jaded; maybe feeling a bit sick of the Christmas and New Year party overload; who want – no, need – clean, restorative, health-giving, but undemanding, food. However, this could also serve four – just double up the veg and the pudding.
The chicken dish is the sort of food that medieval toothless peasants might have had bubbling away regularly over their fires but that we, with our overdeveloped taste for reductions and contrast of flavours, and, well, our many teeth, hardly ever eat. Which is a shame really, as this dish is good for all kinds of reasons: not only is it healthy, but it also requires very little labour – if you want, you can stagger out of bed at any hour you please, assemble it, pop it on the lowest heat and go back to bed until next Christmas. Not only that, but the leftovers provide two more meals for the two of you, which, in a month that brings both a longing for rest and a desire to tighten the belt (both physically as well as financially), is probably just what you are after.
Finishing off the meal, the baked apples offer a way of using up the Christmas mincemeat in a way that will neither break the bank nor bring on the bloat.
