Chicken satay debut.

Somebody made it on Masterchef recently and I immediately thought- I’m making it on Sunday. I asked around at work, as usual, before making something I haven’t made before. Cathal said he didn’t know, as ” he’s not fucking Dutch”, the Chief said he didn’t know, but would google it, Alex said peanut butter, coconut milk, chilli. Ah, Nick mentioned chicken stock and reducing it by half before adding peanut butter.

So I combined all those ideas and reduced the chicken stock, then added lots of peanut butter, some coconut cream, fresh chopped chilli, some brown sugar and kept on tasting and adding until I was happy with it. More chilli next time, I’m too shy with chillies most of the time.

Florek bought some nice boneless chicken thighs, which I put on skewers, together with some red pepper, onion and cup mushrooms. And grilled it. Served with curries rice and peas. Pleased! 🙂

Espresso martini with my own, loving touch.

I sat by my desk this afternoon, replying to emails and shopping online ( damn La Redoute!!!!) and felt like a nice cocktail. The clocks went back last night, so it got dark earlier, I wanted something strong, sweet and energising. We popped out to Waitrose to stock up on the spirits, got the Kalhua – (17 bloody pounds a bottle!!) and I produced espresso martinis.

Four measures of strong espresso coffee, 3 measures of vodka and Kalhua and 2 scoops of good vanilla ice cream, all shaken over ice and finished up with grated chocolate.  When I tasted it, it didn’t seem that strong, but beware- it gets to the head quickly.