Cooking

I always remember wanting to help cook growing up, it meant getting to lick the tasty spoon or mixer blades and watching something akin to magic happening.

Think about it as a child you see all these disparate ingredients ready to be mixed, you have no clue how it happens but through alchemy, science and magic your mother/father creates something that you like and its awesome.

I have always loved my moms cooking (most people will say the same thing) she knows how to cook anything and when she does it its still a little like magic taking place. I envy her ability to juggle 4 pots an oven, a kettle and a microwave in her culinary ballet.

So i decided once i moved out that i would at times forgo the easy option of microwave meals or the easier option of take-away and i would cook for myself. There are quite a few things i can cook for myself that i got my mom to teach me. Lasagna, full roast dinner, glazed carrots (omnom). And then there are the things i try out myself, like Chile, Tacos, weird strawberry desert thing i made once.

I sometimes have these ideas and just run with them sometimes they work sometimes they don't but when they do.......droooool

Today for myself and Cathy i made the following.

Skinless breast of chicken stuffed with Philadelphia light with chives, wrapped in parma ham and topped with a tomato and olive pesto and a light shake of Parmesan cheese. With mint + lime buttered baby potatoes, boiled carrots and sweetcorn.

It was a real challenge to pull off, seeing as my kitchen is smaller than my bathroom and i can use either the hob or the oven not both.

Anyway it worked and it was awesome, here is how i made the chicken.

Ingredients
2 Skinless Breast of chicken
1 packet of parma ham
1 tub of philly light with chives
1 jar of tomato and olive pesto
2 tablespoons of parmesan

Directions
Butterfly cut the chicken breasts
apply philly to one wing then fold the chicken back over (the amount varies depending on your taste)
wrap each breast in parma ham
use toothpicks or skewers to hold the ham in place
place on a baking tray or tinfoil in preheated oven at 250c
Cook for 25 minutes
spread pesto on top of each one (amount to your taste) then shake the parmesan on top.
put back in the oven for 5 minutes. (i used this time to prepare everything else)

The chicken turned out perfect, not too dry and oh man the flavors.

What will i cook next week.