On course again.

Well, after a weekend of cooking I am back on track. I have successfully made " Little prune puddings with caramel sauce", "Chicken with potatoes and dill", "Butter beans with mustard and tomato" , and  " Little apricot and oat cakes".
( if you have The Kitchen Diaries you will realise one or two recipes are missing but intend to complete by the end of the week)

LITTLE PRUNE PUDDINGS
Mr Slater says " nothing makes my heart sink like a restaurant order of one pudding and four spoons"  If I have chosen the pudding I quite agree. However I was unable to make my pudding as individuals as I haven't the correct size tins so made one big pud! This worked well, but I intend to look out for some small pudding tins as it is a nice way to serve this pudding.

The pudding was delicious , the taste of the alcohol really came through. A lovely warming comforting pudding for cold winter days. My husband thought it would work well with apples - not so sure how that would work as they wouldn't absorb the alcohol .


CHICKEN WITH POTATOES AND DILL
Devine and quick and easy to make. Mr Slater suggests serving with steamed rice but I think a green veg works best!

BUTTER BEANS WITH MUSTARD AND TOMATO
Really didn't want to make this as I hate butter beans and thought it sounded quite unpalatable. I have to eat my words however. A lovely comfort food kind of bean stew, quick and easy and can be made from store cupboard ingreds - a good recipe when you have forgotten to shop.

LITTLE APRICOT AND OAT CAKES?
" A cake with backbone" according to Mr Slater. This was the first Nigel Slater recipe which I found hard work. My apricots would not chop in my food processor so tried my liquidiser which didn't work either so ended up doing it by hand which was very time consuming.
Not worth the effort would be my verdict on these little cakes. They had a chewy texture and were very sweet.

Apologies to anyone reading this as I have photos of all my efforts but can't get them to upload onto the blog. Will do so as soon as I learn how!!!!