Hey if you are ever at a loss at what to do with a free range chicken - then try this lovely recipe. I marinade in one of Jamie Oliver's - they are so quick and easy and create fabulous flavours.
Incredible Chicken Kebabs
1 free range chicken
2 handfuls of fresh rosemary
2 lemons
6 garlic cloves
10 lugs of Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil
Pestle and Mortar (or bowl and end of a rolling pin)
Cut off the breasts and leg meat off the chicken (save the rest to make into a soup the next day).
Then cut into strips about a thumb width and pop into a bowl (not metal).
Peel garlic and crush roughly in pestle and mortar, put into chicken bowl. Then using a potato peeler peel the lemon peel into strips, then cut in half and squeeze juice squashing with hands over the chicken. Then I always pop the lemons into mortar to scrape up last remnants of garlic! Pop into the chicken bowl then add the Rosemary and cold pressed Rapeseed oil. Now get your hands messy and mix all the ingredients wells.
Leave to marinade for as long as possible. Then get kebab sticks - I used wooden ones and then thread the chicken onto sticks to make 8 kebabs. The weather was really poor so I popped them under the grill instead of on the BBQ & I always do it on tin foil to catch the delicious juices. Squeeze all the oil and flavour out of the marinade over the chicken kebabs.
Grill on high, turning every few minutes until cook through - about 10-15 minutes.
Once cooked, plate up and remember to pour over the juices caught in the tin foil!
Home-Baked Chips
I really never buy freezer chips, but what I do do is buy sacks of potatoes, so that we always have loads! Then I quickly peel the potatoes, and depending on how long I have cut them into chips.
Big hurry - very small squares
Mid hurry - very thin chips
Less hurry - big chunky chips
I then place them individually onto a stone baking tray (I am a big fan of pampered chef, but you can also use baking tray!). If your tray is not big enough then just pile them in. Drizzle with cold pressed Rapeseed oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper & other other herbs you might fancy. With the chicken I just used salt and pepper on chips.
Bake in hot oven for 15 mins - 30 mins depending on size of chips and strength of your oven! With a stone I do not turn over chips - however you may need to with a baking tray.
Serve your yummy chips with your kebabs and a cucumber and tomato salad.
We had a little boys over for tea and it was a full success!
Mini Cupcakes
Cake mix
200g Gluten free flour
200g Butter or dairy free marg
200g Unrefined caster sugar
4 eggs
2 tbsp milk/rice milk
1 tsp Vanilla essence
Butter icing
350g Icing sugar
160g butter
2 tbsp milk/rice milk
vanilla essence
red colouring
If using butter, beat butter until starts to become fluffy then slowly add sugar and keep beating until it literally starts to fall off the spoon. This is the most important stage, my butter was still a little cold so it took about 10 minutes to get to the right consistency - this is really the most important part of the cake!
Then beat in the eggs one by one and then slowly whisk in the flour. Add the 2 tbsp of milk and 1 tsp of vanilla essence, whisk in.
Pop a full teaspoon of cake mix into each well of a tray for mini muffins (mine has 24 muffin holes and this mix made about 36 cakes). Bake in oven at 180C for 7-10 mins, they are ready when they spring back to your touch.
After a few minutes turn them out onto a cooling rack. By the time you have made the icing the cakes should be cool.
Again if using butter, beat until starts to go fluffy then add a bit at a time the icing sugar. Then add the vanilla essence and milk.
Put half into piping bag and pipe onto mini cakes, then add a few drops of red colour to the rest of the icing and mix, repeat until you have a lovely pink colour and then pipe onto the rest of the cakes. Makes it look like you have make 2 different types of cakes. Any cakes where the piping has gone wrong, cover with sprinkles or chocolate gratings!
Watch out these are so delicious and so easy to pop into your mouth, they can disappear very quickly!
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