Sunday 12 June 2016

Easy Saturday tea and miracle worker

House stuff still trundling... Slowly. What a dreadfully tedious process the whole thing is!

Meanwhile, life also continues inexorably onwards. ....

I don't know about you, but we tend to have an easy tea on a Saturday evening. Saturday's are often a day where we catch up with errands, so we are out and about, so a quick tea is in order.
We used to have 'sandwich tea' pretty much every Saturday, which is terrifying considering my eldest daughter was being exposed to all that gluten every week! Yikes.
This recipe is a deviation from my norm as it is neither vegan nor gluten free (well it could be GF if you used GF pitta breads), but it is extremely easy and quick to prepare, so I thought I'd share it anyway.

Coriander chicken, hoummous pitta pockets



Chicken breast cut into small strips
1 tsp each of ground cumin, ground coriander and turmeric
Juice of 2 lemons
The finely chopped stalks of a small bunch of fresh coriander

Marinate the chicken strips in the above ingredients either overnight or for a couple of hours depending on when you realise you have no chicken in the house!

Mix hoummous (either home made or shop bought) with some natural yoghurt to thin.

Chop the coriander leaves and mix with other salad leaves - whatever you have to hand.

Fry the chicken strips in a little oil to cook. They need to be still tender but cooked through. Serve the chicken with a good dollop of the hoummous mix and pitta breads

Delicious :)

On another note, my brother and his wife went down to Mums house this weekend to sort out the garden. I had dealt with the house, so he was charged with getting the garden back under control before handing the house over on 22 June (fingers crossed). He has worked an absolute miracle on it. Here are the before and after photos. Bear in mind he arrived Friday morning and took the after photos on Saturday evening - when he gets going he works like a thing possessed :) He has been known to be banging fence posts in in the dark with just the light from a head torch to help....

Before rear garden 

Before rear garden 

Before front garden 

After front garden 

After rear garden 

Sad as I am to be letting go of the home I loved  most during my childhood and young adult years and the home I  got married from and brought all my children to on 'holiday', I will also be very relieved that it is no longer my responsibility. 



11 comments:

  1. The chicken pittas look delicious. Will defiantly try that one . Always running out of ideas when dad and sue come for lunch. Looking forward to seeing you a week on Saturday x x

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  2. It won't be that long and, if you can travel an extra 45 mins, you can have lunch with us occasionally too :) x

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  3. What a difference in the garden. Your brother did a bang up job.

    God bless.

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  4. What a difference in the garden, where did the tall trees go in the after front garden photo.
    It looks like they were chopped dow or is it just the angle ?
    Isn't it amazing when a garden goes wild.

    cheers, parsnip and thehamish

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    1. I think it's the different angle although I wouldn't put it past him to chop the trees down too! He planted them all in the first place I think :)

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  5. What a difference in the garden, where did the tall trees go in the after front garden photo.
    It looks like they were chopped dow or is it just the angle ?
    Isn't it amazing when a garden goes wild.

    cheers, parsnip and thehamish

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  6. Such an amazing difference, hope all goes well.

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  7. Fantastic work on the garden! Chicken looks yummy. We have tonnes more herbs now than we ever have before so I generally grab a handful of this and that and put them in with salad leaves. Jon put thyme in the gravy to go with pork and Yorkshire puds yesterday, mmm!

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    1. I like be the flavour of thyme. We added Rosemary to our roast chips last night. It's so lovely to just trot outside and pick fresh flavours to enhance your food!

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