Saturday - Roast chicken and Lemon Delicious

We had friends over for dinner on Saturday night so I did a roast. There  were two guests so that made 5 for dinner.

Main course:

• Garlic and chilli split chicken x 2 - $6.50 each. I bought this already in marinade from the supermarket.
• Garlic salt flavoured roast vegetables - potato, sweet potato, pumpkin and onion - fruit and veg box
• thyme oven roasted cherry tomatoes - fruit and veg box
• honey glazed baby carrots - $2
• green beans - from fruit and veg box

Dessert:

• Lemon Delicious - 2 lemons from fruit and veg box and other ingredients from pantry.
• Thickened cream - $2.39 for 500ml

Lemon delicious recipe - courtesy of "The Cook's Companion" by Stephanie Alexander

2 lemons
60g butter
1 1/2 cups castor sugar
3 eggs, separated
3 tablespoons self raising flour
1 1/2 cups milk

Pre-heat oven to 180 C and butter a 1 litre oven-proof basin or serving dish. Zest 1 lemon and juice both.  In a food processor, cream butter with zest and sugar, then add egg yolks. Add flour and milk alternately to mixture to make a smooth batter. Scrape mixture from sides of processor bowl and add lemon juice.  Transfer to a basin.  Whisk egg white until creamy and firm and fold gently into batter.  Pour batter into prepared basin. Stand basin in a baking dish and pour in hot water to come halfway up sides of basin.  Bake for 1 hour.  Allow to cool a little before serving.


There was enough chicken left to make shredded chicken for school lunches for the first two days of the week.  Nothing else was left except cream.

I try to keep a well stocked pantry of basics and we don't eat a lot of processed foods as I prefer to cook from scratch.  However I believe in pre-made pasta sauces as a great "go to" as a recipe base.  We have a delivery every week of a box of fruit and a box of veg from a co-op that I belong to. It's much cheaper than the supermarket, it's seasonal and super fresh. I don't know what I am going to get each week other than the basics of potatoes, carrots and tomatoes. It makes it exciting to unpack and start planning what we will cook with our "bounty".