Main: French-style Chicken & Potatoes
Taste
Dessert: Sticky Date Pudding
Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cook Book No. 3
“Learn how to cook, try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless and above all have fun”
Julia Child
Hi Everyone!
Julia Child nailed it with this statement. So many of us are fearful of cooking so just throw our hands up and say “oh, I don’t really cook” when, in actual fact, it can be a really relaxing and enjoyable pass time as well as bringing people together in the comfort of your home and not at some noisy restaurant.
I love French food and yes, I agree, it is not always an easy cuisine to replicate. So when I saw this recipe for French-style Chicken & Potatoes by Taste I just had to investigate. Taste recipes are always easy to follow and pretty much fail proof. I was, however, a little surprised that the recipe called for home made condensed cream of chicken soup. My first thought was that they would use a can. Silly me! The soup part of the recipe was very easy and can be made a day ahead if you wish. I also think it could be good as the base for a few different recipes which I will investigate and experiment with down the track.
Once you’ve made the base (being the soup) it is just a matter of browning the chicken, onion and garlic and then throwing it all in together to cook away for approximately an hour. The wine, mustard and herbs makes for a mouth watering smell wafting through the house. Pretty darn easy and a real family pleaser. The flavour is heavenly. 9/10.
The Sticky Date is always a winner. I’ve been making this since the Dinner Party Cookbooks first came out. The great thing about this recipe is that you can do it ahead and freeze it before coating with the caramel.
It freezes really well and can be used just as a cake warmed with butter or as the full on dessert with homemade caramel sauce, ice-cream and cream. I like to have one of these in the freezer just in case. I cut it in half and freeze so that I have dessert for four at a moments notice. 10/10.
Next week the MAV is away at golf so we are trying a simple vegetarian stuffed capsicum dish which I’ve been wanting to try for some time but knew the MAV would not be a happy chappy.
Until next week.
From my table to yours with love x
