For today, you'll have to forgive me for being brief but it's Friday night people (and seriously haven't you got anything better to do??). Breakfast was the standard toast affair all round and for lunch Mrs P enjoyed a left over sausage from last night alongside a cheese and lettuce sandwich (I was left with a sandwich but without sausage. Sad times). However, The Child proudly proclaimed that she had enjoyed fish and chips for lunch at school, somebody won the lunchtime lottery there and she isn't even old enough to gamble.
Tonight, due to our busy social lives we needed something quick, quick, quick so we had a chicken broth lined up. Chicken soup is a real winner in the frugal cooking stakes and never better than created using the basis of my Mum's chicken soup recipe - check it out here. I made a chicken stock last night with the thigh bones, roasted then boiled up with a carrot and remaining leek.
Boiled, strained and mushed up, the longer you simmer it, the better it tastes - don't forget about it though and boil it dry like I did once, it's always sad to lose a good saucepan to the ravages of melted chicken bones. It's true that six bones don't make an award winning stock but the veg added a bit of body to it and with a stock cube, it provided a cheap, tasty broth that held up well. Add in a chopped carrot, the rest of the celery hiding in the back of the fridge, a couple of potatoes, a couple of spoonfuls of tinned sweetcorn (instead of the peas mentioned in the original recipe, because I'm a rebel like that) with the chicken we've been saving since Tuesday and you get a meal for less than a quid. And healthy? Well; water, carrot, leek, potato and chicken plus bit of salt. So, yeah - I'm not going to feel guilty. Now, if only I can reason with Mrs P that just because we did well tonight, doesn't mean she can swap out our home made pizza for a Dominos special tomorrow...
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