The next decade....what's in store?

Sunday feast

I didn't mention that my sister, her kids and my mother are away did I? So it's just me, Pops and the mutts here.

Usually on a Sunday I help with a part of dinner, but, as Mad Bull would say...yuh done know seh I had to do ALL of it today. No problem.

Lemme do like Dr D now and describe the preparation...

Saturday, cut up and season a whole chicken. I dont like recipes and I like to experiment. So in went some Walkerswood Jerk Seasoning (recommended by Adwoa-Shanti....I'm never returning to Grace again!), nutmeg, cinnamon, pineapple juice and pineapple (tin), garlic, thyme, bay leaf and soy sauce. That was left overnight.

Today, put that in the oven along with two potatoes wrapped individually in foil. Then deveined some shrimps, cooked a curry sauce with coconut milk, strained it and then dropped the shrimps in and let it boil and simmer.

Cut up some cho-cho (christophene) lengthwise rather than cubes, julienned some pumpkin (very thin strips) and cut off some broccoli florets. Used the steamer to steam those veggies.

Boiled corn as well.

When the chicken was cooked, I strained off the juice and added a concasse of sweet peppers, tomato and pineapple slices (nicely cubed).

So when I served it out the plate looked real pretty. I fanned out the long slices of cho-cho and put the shorter pumpkin strips on top, then put down the florets. Placed the chicken on the plate and drizzled the gravy with the concasse over it, so you got this explosion of colours.....red, green and yellow.

I cut an 'X' in the potato and squeezed up the flesh.

And Pops said "not bad at all". (That's a compliment).

Of course, I shoulda take a picture, but I've described it in detail so you can visualize. It didn't taste half bad, if I must say so myself.

Next week Sunday I'll be alone, so maybe won't do anything fancy.

Posted by yamfoot at July 24, 2005 11:21 PM