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Friday 29 June 2007

Grilled Portuguese Chicken with roasted kumaras and mediteranean rocket and mesclun salad with parmigiano, pear and red vine vinegar dressing



Woah...that was quite a mouthful to read out. But just wanted to share it out with everyone is interested to give this easy and yummy dish a go. I remember making a similar dish sometime ago with chicken breast. Somehow, I became more and more less fond of chicken breasts and decided to use the chicken thigh instead. If you're afraid of the extra fats, do trim off some skin, or just leave it on for the cooking process and remove skin when it's done. The skin is to protect the moisture and tenderness of the meat.

Recipe (serves 2):

2 Chicken thighs
Masterfood peri-peri sprinkle
2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
small piece of ginger, chopped
2 bulbs of garlic , chopped
salt
ground black pepper
sesame oil
granulated sugar
extra virgin olive oil

3-4 pcs baby gold kumaras/sweet potatoes, halved

salad:

a handful of Wild Mediteranean Rocket and Mesclun
1/2 cup thinly sliced parmigiano cheese
5-6 thin slices of packham pears
3 tablespoons of italian red wine vinegar
extra virgin olive oil
salt
pepper


Marinate the chicken with all the ingredients. Squeeze lemon to give the meat a little zest. Keep refrigerated for about 2 hours or longer before cooking.

Reheart oven at 180C for 10 mins. Line a nonstick pan with drizzles of olive oil and lay the chicken with skin facing upwards. Toss in kumaras. Grill at 200c for 40 mins. Take out and turn chicken around and brush kumaras with chicken fats and grills for another 20 mins.

As for the salad, combine all the ingredients and serve with the chicken and kumaras.
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Thursday 28 June 2007

The almost forgotten project....

The reason I have not started blogging until recently was because of the very same reasons I do not start doing something if I don't neccessarily have to i.e work, sleep, shower, eat, shop ( it's essential to maintain my endorphine count !!), read, surf the net, and talk. While writing this, it reminds me of my 2 pages full scrapbook which I have started since Xmas 06 and god forbid all the money I have spent on buying fancy papers, embellishments, stickers, et cetera.

Just noticed how long ago was my last entry kinda hinted me that I should have never started it but reading others' food blogs makes me want to keep this up. There's so much gorgeous food that I eat day in day out that it feels like sin not to share something that I love doing so dearly.

Maybe I feel unmotivated sometimes because I always have something new to excite me and believe me, the excitement doesn't last longer than a couple of weeks at most.

I have recently read a busy mommy's blog which she religiously updates all the yummy food she made and shares all the cute pictures of her baby and I start to wonder how she managed that being a first time mom and working fulltime. But she mentioned something that is very motivating that says that if you keep saying that you don't have time, you will never have any. Very well said.

I will go home after work today to upload some of my most recent food conquests before the next one is due ( tommorow). Also, I am pretty tempted to add in other events in my life on this blog. At first, I thought it is a little unrelevant but then again, food is related to your mood and it's part and parcel of one's everyday life. So, there be it.


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