Roast Chicken Dinner Pasties

This Sunday we had left over cluck cluck (that's chicken btw) so Sunday night I made a few of my Roast chicken dinner pasties (add whatever you've had for your Sunday roast to make Sunday Roast Pasties.)


Ingredients


about 250 g Left over chicken torn into strips and chunks.

2 rashers of bacon (smoked, unsmoked, streaky, lean whatever you want!)

1 leftover potato peeled and diced.

2 small/1 large left over carrot peeled and sliced

Chicken gravy

1 onion diced

herbs to taste

pre-made puff pastry.


Method

1. Pre heat oven to 180 degrees C/ Gas mark 4.


2. Chop the 2 rashers into small pieces and fry in non-stick pan in olive/vegetable oil.


3. When the bacon changes colour add the potato, onion and carrot.


4. When the onion becomes soft add the chicken and the gravy. Cook for 2 minutes. If the you would like the gravy thicker add cornflour.


5. Unroll the pastry and roll out flat till it is about 2mm thick. Cut into circles about the size of side plates.


6. Spoon mixture onto one side of each pastry piece and fold over.


7. Fold the edges in on themselves and push down firmly.


8. Place on a grease baking tray and shut in the oven for half an hour -45 minutes or until crispy.

Some variations...

• Add different meat to the mixture.


• Add left over stuffing.


• If using pork, try apple instead of potato.


• Cut the pastry into squares and spoon mixture into the centre of 1 and lay another across the top.


• Use the same method but at step 5 put the mixture into a pie dish and put the pastry over the top to make a Chicken Dinner Pie.

The recipe is depending on how much meat you have left over. If you have more, do less mixture, if you have less do more mixture.

Happy cooking!

Catey

Bananarama bread

So we had some...hmmm lets say "well done" banana's sitting in the fruit bowl looking quite sad that they would be thrown out by tea time tomorrow (it's Monday tomorrow when we do the week shop), "fear not little narnas" I said with the air of an Avenger, "I will use you to make scrummy Bananarama bread! To the kitchen"
I searched Banana bread on the internet but every one said you need bicarbonate of soda, the ingredient which was not lurking in my cupboard. Ha! Whatevs to you recipe people! So If you don't have bicarbonate of soda here is the recipe. If you do, then go ahead and use a different recipe! I don't see what difference it'll make.

Ingredients

3/4 "well done" bananas mashed (amount depending on how bananary you like it)
200g plain flour
130g caster sugar
115g butter (I used salted but unsalted will make the bread sweeter) room temperature
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
25g (leftover) raisins (they were lemon flavoured but if you can't find that just put in a tiny squeeze of lemon.)

Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees C/gas mark 4



2. Prepare a loaf tin (I made one from a container lid and 4 sheets of tin foil) by greasing with butter.



3. Mix the butter and sugar until it forms a paste like texture.



4. Add the flour, make a well and add the egg and vanilla extract. Embrace the messy hands on approach to mixing the dough. This is the best method for all types of bread as more air gets into the mixture. Mix until doughy.



5. Add the raisins and mashed bananas and mix well.



6. Put the mixture into the loaf tin and shut it in the oven for 1 hour/until it looks done.

Some variations...

• Use chocolate chips, almonds, or half a diced apple instead of raisins.



• Chop half a banana into slices and lay it on top of the loaf for the last 10/15 minutes of cooking time.

Hope you enjoy it. Add what you like and call it your own.

Happy cooking!

Catey