Smeg off
Smeg is a range of cookers with a high reputation and the sort of name to set some people (me included) sniggering. But right now I'm not smiling.
In the fridge is a magnificent free range chicken which I'd intended to roast for Sunday dinner.
Just across the kitchen is a Smeg cooker, the oven of which has stopped working and which will not be repaired until next week at the earliest.
The challenge: what to do with the bird.
I reckon the answer is to poach it in stock flavoured with a little white wine, orange and lemon and then serve it with rosemary, lemon and almond cous cous, a roasted vegetable salad and that fiery North African paste, harissa.
Sounds good. But after a holiday abroad, I was really looking forward to a good old English roast.
Grrrr...I hate household electrics sometimes.
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