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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 […]
M&S Super Wholefood Salad with Blueberries & Mango
“Quinoa, red rice and sprouted peas and beans with a lemon and basil oil dressing, blueberries and mango.” What a great salad. It’s full of healthy ingredients–quinoa, sprouted beans, blueberries, mango–but it doesn’t taste too healthy. The dressing is lemony from lemon juice and zest and basily from the ubiquitous basil-infused sunflower oil. The quinoa […]
Cully & Sully Chilli con Carne Hot Pot
“A mighty Mexican chilli con carne made with Irish beef, rice, beans & gentle spices.” Chili isn’t a Mexican dish at all, but Mexican-American. The primordial chili of Texas contains beef, chiles (both dried and fresh), onions, cumin and little else. The “San Antonio Chili Stand” at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago introduced the […]
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 […]
