Homemade chicken curry, rice and nann.

Made my usual Chicken Korma curry for tea the other night, really simple recipe which takes roughly half an hour cooking time and about 10 minutes prep time.I used to buy the ready made Korma's from Asda as none of the kids like the curries Leigh or I make as they are too spicy for them but this is much better than Asda and the kids wolf it down.
Recipe below.

                                                        Chicken Korma simmering

                                                    Finished Korma with boiled Basmati Rice

                                                      Nann Bread proving

Finished Nann Bread

Recipe for Chicken Korma

Ingredients

2 Chicken Breasts,cubed

200ml fresh double cream

1/2 pint of chicken stock

2 medium tomatoes, peeled 

1 tablespoon of tomato puree

4 teaspoons of sugar

5 tablespoons of Korma curry spice

4 tablespoons of butter or oil

Method

Take the cream out the fridge and leave on the worktop to come up to room temperature.

Make the chicken stock, can either be homemade or by using 1/2 stock cube.

Heat wok or suitable pan on a medium heat, add oil or butter, once heated add the peeled and chopped tomatoes including the seeds.Stir well, then add the tomato puree, cook for 3 minutes.Add the Korma curry spice and the sugar and mix well, cook for a further 3 minutes.Add the chicken and stir well, cook for 2 minutes then slowly add the cream bit by bit continuously.Add the chicken stock and bring heat up to a boil.Once boiling reduce heat down to a simmer and place lid on pan,cook until it starts to thicken, this usually takes about 20 minutes. If curry is not thick enough then remove lid and simmer for a bit longer.

Nann Bread Recipe

Ingredients

250g Strong white bread flour

sachet of yeast (7g)

5g of salt

160ml warm milk

tablespoon of olive oil

Method

Warm milk to blood temperature,pour into a large bowl or mixer, add the yeast, flour,salt in that order and kneed for 5 minutes.Place a damp tea towel over the bowl and leave to prove for at least 1&1/2 hours.

Pour olive oil onto the worktop and empty the bowl of dough onto the oil to stop it sticking, cut into 4 pieces, roll into balls then flatten to about 1/4 inch.Heat the skillet or large frying pan to a medium/high heat, place one nann in the skillet and cook until coloured on that side then flip over,cook until both sides are a nice deep colour.This takes a couple of minutes each side.Serve warm.

Hope you try this,all those ingredients were bought from Lidl.

Hazel.

                                                                                                   

Homemade weedkiller update.

Well the weedkiller did work but I don't think I used enough to totally eradicate all the weeds as a couple of them are still alive, mainly grassy bits.
So I will be making some again probably next week and redoing it.I didn't have enough to do the neighbours driveway either so that'll be done next week too.

Was it worth the effort? I say yes as it wasn't really hardworking or time consuming at all,I had the water, cheap salt and vinegar in away so it was also cost effective.

Sadly there is no photos of the before and after the first treatment but hopefully there will be with the second treatment.

Quick update of the update!

I never got round to doing the drive or the neighbours drive, other things got in the way and I kinda forgot all about it.What I will say is you must remove the weedy bits or they will miraculously grow back,I obviously didn't use enough salt to permanently kill off the roots but I know for next year now.



 Hazel.

Homemade Weedkiller

Today I have made a natural weedkiller for those pesky weeds on the drive,Leigh occasionally scrapped them up when he could be arsed when cutting the front lawn, which wasn't often.

So I got my largest pan out and filled it about 3/4 the way up with water,I imagine it would be roughly 4 litres perhaps? I put it on the gas hob to heat,I do this as I don't have an electric kettle so all water heating is done on the hob. I added a full bottle of White Vinegar and two large containers of cheap table salt.Gave it a good mixing while it was heating up, once at boiling point I turned the heat off and let it naturally cool off enough to be able to transfer into a spray bottle.
I just use an old cleaning product spray bottle washed out because I'm too tight to buy a spray bottle.


I gave all the weeds a good squirt of the salt mix,hopefully enough to get down to the roots to kill them off permanently. I did this while it was sunny this morning but it has become a little overcast now so I'm praying it doesn't rain.
Later on this afternoon after I do the school run I'm also going to give the weeds a vinegar spray,as a secondary hit on those pesky weeds,They will DIE!

I shall update the progress soon, fingers crossed it has worked.I was suppose to also do my Neighbours drive but I ran out of the mix,I will make some more next week and do hers.

Hazel.

Photos?

I seem to be having problems getting photos on here,I'm not great with technology but I do try.I have tried to upload photos from my phone into photo bucket which shows them fine but I can't copy and paste any links for some reason? Or when I put my phone on the laptop it shows that the photos are uploaded into iCloud but when I click the "photo"icon on here the new photos are not showing?
I'll work it out at some point,photos do make blogs that much more enjoyable.

Hazel.

Yummy Bargain!

Went to Asda yesterday and a bargain caught my eye on the extremely small reduced section, chocolate!

I usually just buy the Asda own brand whole nut chocolate, which is nice but not as nice as Cadburys chocky.I won't eat Nestle or Galaxy chocolate,both taste like crap to me. Anyway my usual whole nut chocky bars costs £1.20 each,I found some bars with a good few months date left on them for 59p!
I assume there is going to be a change in packaging (with the usual price rise) or they are going to be discontinued as there was non in the usual place and the SEL was missing.

My yummy chocky

I love this Chocolate,until I start my health eating regime that is as I'm a fat bloater.lol.   I love food! I mean who doesn't? I love cooking from scratch and do admit my kids sometimes eat Yellow/beige food! Oh the shame, nah balls to it, they are fussy buggers and I'd rather they eat crap food the odd one or two days a week than starve.They have a cooked school dinner so I'm not worried like some of the snowflakes Ive come across on the internet of kids not having a hot meal every day.      

Tonights tea/dinner/evening meal,whatever you call it? I call it Tea,so tonights Tea is Homemade Chicken Dinner Leftover pie, with Broccoli and Jersey New Potatoes

   Not too bad considering I only have a Microwave combo oven and its tiny! My poor range oven has died a death and only the gas hob now works.So we are slowly saving for a new one.When I say slowly I mean a snail would zoom past, that sort of slowly.

Hazel.x