After I watched French Food at Home tonight, I tried one of the Laura Calder’s chicken recipe with fantastic result!
I used red wine vinegar, dried herbs instead of bouquet garni, chicken powder with water instead of chicken stock, and omitted the butter already. It thickened nicely without it and I’ve …

Yesterday I cooked a risotto recipe from the cookbook Risotto, by Janey Stacey and Kathryn Hawkins with a good result. The risotto ingredients are chicken stock, smoked chicken, button mushrooms, mango, almonds, and thyme.
I can’t get arborio rice, so I used ordinary long grain rice. It won’t give same result …

This is not my recipe, but I tried it today with spectacular result! It’ll only take 10 minutes to cook, sans the pasta. 5 minutes preparation and 5 minutes cooking. Keep in mind that I work slowly.
Basically, the sauce consists of mushrooms, butter, olive oil, dried basil, salt and pepper. …