In direct response to the last blog’s binge we have clearly gone on a bit of a health kick.
I have to admit to having a bit of a weakness for diet cook books. I mean obviously I have a weakness for cookbooks in general, but diet ones are a particular… windmill?
I always want them to be able to do so much and they frequently deliver so little. Why do so many of them contain recipes for a single person? Or a combination of ingredients that are completely unseasonal, or pointlessly expensive? Or so very American?
Antony Worral Thompson’s GI Diet book is one of the more acceptable ones. It shows in the recipes that he’s a chef and that there’s a good 50% chance he may have actually eaten these. Plus G.I diet food doesn’t usually feel too diety.
We made the Spicy Braised Aubergines with Chickpeas & Prunes which is full of Middle Eastern flavour.
We also did his roast chicken recipe, which wasn’t all that. But we had a spare chicken in the freezer and I wanted some cooked chicken for salads so…
The recipe is seriously lacking in both butter and bacon. Essentials for a good roast chicken in this house. We served it with roasted sweet potatoes as he suggested, using spice suggestions from a modern way to eat.
These worked really well. Because we only have one oven we only do proper roasties on special occasions as it takes a rather epic degree on organisation to get both crunchy potatoes and warm meat simultaneously.
It can be done, but most of the time we can’t be bothered. Especially with chicken since:
- Chicken cools down faster than any other roast or indeed than it has any right to do.
- Our go to lazy roast chicken recipe actually cooks the chicken on top of a layer of sliced potatoes, which rather negates the need for any further effort.
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