chicken
Tesco Ken Hom’s Chicken and Mushrooms
“Pieces of chicken breast in a smoky Chee Hou sauce with mushrooms and choi sum.” First, the results of some googling. Choi sum (Brassica parachinensis) is a member of the Mustard family is also referred to as a flowering pak choy. Chee hou sauce is similar to hoisin sauce but spicier. The meal also contains […]
The City Kitchen King Prawn, Chicken and Chorizo Paella
“King prawn, chicken and chorizo paella, tomato & basil sauce with smoked Spanish paprika” My Tesco occasionally has a few meals from The City Kitchen (this drives me crazy; either you stock it or you don’t, choose for cryin’ out loud!) so I grabbed this one as paella is rare. The variety of rice used […]
Country Kitchen Chicken & Vegetable Soup
I like this soup because it’s not pureed. Chunky soups are hard to find here. It has small chunks and shreds of chicken and recognizable bits of carrot, leek, celery and potato. The green beans are very hard to distinguish from the leeks because they’re shredded so finely. The chickeny broth is thickened with corn […]
M&S Simply Fuller Longer Tomato & Basil Chicken with Couscous & Butternut Squash
“Tomato & basil chicken, couscous & butternut squash with a sweet balsamic dressing.” Sharon rule: When it comes to food prep, the less the better. When left to my own devices, I’ll eat a progressive dinner of cheese and crackers, yogurt, peanut butter from a spoon, followed by whatever sweet thing is in the house. […]
WeightWatchers Sweet & Sour Chicken with Long Grain Rice
“Succulent pieces of chicken breast covered in a delicious sweet and sour sauce with juicy pineapple, red and yellow peppers and crisp water chestnuts, served with fluffy long grain rice.” This is a guest review by my mate Barry. He’s a man of few words: “Warm. Bland. Tasteless. Rotten.” “Warm” is the best thing he […]
M&S Thai Green Chicken Curry & Jasmine Rice
“Thai green chicken curry with with sugar snap peas & sticky jasmine rice” Since the package specified sticky jasmine rice, I tasted it first, before applying sauce. The rice was nice, a little sweet. (Of course the lack of comma suggests that the jasmine is sticky, rather than the rice, but who cares about a […]
M&S 5-spice Chicken with Vegetables and Vietnamese-style Dressing
“Carrots, peppers and mooli with five spice chicken and a Vietnamese style dressing.” Mooli? What the heck is mooli? At first I thought the white shavings were jicama, but a taste exposed them as radish. Apparently daikon radish is known in the U.K. and Ireland by its Hindi name, muuli. Makes more sense I suppose […]
