A rather nice 2009 Spanish Shiraz from the Murcia region
I’m not a great one for restaurants in London, over priced especially if you drink wine and to be honest the food usually falls short of what I can do at home. So this is what I cooked as the main course for this evenings dinner, along with the 2009 bottle of Spanish Shiraz from the Murcia region of Spain, that was very much enjoyed.
I should point out, for my more sensitive readers, this post contains photos of dead meat!!
Dinner tonight was chicken breasts stuffed with cheese, mushrooms and garlic, wrapped in bacon and then roasted in the oven. They were then decorated with some peeled king prawns. It is quite difficult photographing food, better done in daylight when one can avoid shadows, but hey, I eat in the evening. They were then served on a bed of fettucine pasta in a white wine and cream sauce.
Before serving the decorative prawns were mixed into the pasta sauce, it was served up and the chicken breast placed on top of the pasta. The plate in the photograph was only used for presentation purposes.
You eat a lot!!
It was for two !!!
I wouldn’t go to so much bother just for myself.
Thought you were stockpiling internally for the next week with all that lot. No greens/salad I guess?
There were mushrooms stuffed into the chicken. They were my vegetable for the day.
Mushrooms are not usually green, unless you use food colouring.
or they are extremely mouldy. So, to be precise, nothing green was involved with the meal, raw or cooked. I don’t know if mushrooms count as one of my five a week or not. I’m having peas tonight, I like them, they come pre-chopped!! They’re green!!
It’s five a day!! And apparently they do to my surprise. I think they have extended the list though to make it easier for people. Apparently frozen and tinned veg count too, which I think is a silly message to give out. We had peas the other night too, with carrots, fresh onion and cooked in veg stock. Did yours come in pods or out of a bag? 😉
I doubt you can buy peas in pods in London, even in the unlikely event of anyone wanting to. I tend to buy fresh food, things like peppers for example, and then chop and freeze them for when I want them. Likewise I freeze my mushrooms.