Sundays

Sundays are family days in my opinion. In our house Nick usually gets the sunday lie-in whilst I get up and feed Benjamin and Jasmine. After that I start on brunch for us. I call it brunch because by the time Nick wakes up and we're ready to eat, it is usually around 10am. On a sunday I like to cook a full breakfast, be it a traditional fry-up (or at least my helathier grilled version) or some other hot breaksfast. It's the one day of the week that we both have time to linger over our breakfast - in fact for nick, it is the only day he has breakfast unless I make it on saturday as well. This morning we had scrambled eggs, fried potatoes with ham and tomatoes and wholemeal bread. Ben also helped me to make a delicious fruit salad consisting of bluberries, red grapes, mango and pomegranate, drizzled with lime juice. Then, after tidying the house and getting ready, I put the chiken in the oven on really low, whipped up some banana and blueberry wholewheat muffin batter and off we went for our now regular sunday family walk (see http://www.tanmu.blogspot.com/)

Ben helping his mummy make breakfast

Anyway, the aforementioned chicken that I cooked today was quite delicious. It was a recipe from Rachel Allen's Cookbook and was Honey and Lemon chicken. I decided to actually follow the recipe instead of just looking at the title or picture and freestyling it. I almost managed it too, except I couldn't help but make a few adjustments. Firstly I added some paprika, then some fresh thyme and some whole garlic cloves. I only meant for it to be in the oven for a couple of hours max (which was longer than the recipe stated, but I wanted it to cook whilst I was out), but our walk ended up taking a lot longer than expected and it cooked for almost 3 1/2 hours!!! Luckily it didn't dry out and when we got back I whacked the oven up high and let it the marinade caramelise over the chicken. I then served it with rice and a mixed salad with a homemade balsamic vinaigrette. Add a glass of chardonnay and bliss! We then scoffed the muffins (or rather I scoffed the muffins - I had 3! - they were only small ones) for dessert.

Yum!