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Nigel Slater - Paprika, Mustard Chicken Goujons  Recipe Book: Nigel Slater - Eat  Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So, So good! When I started mixing the paprika and mustard together I started deliberating whether these were going to be any good as the mix smelled funny. I actually went and opened a new jar of mustard to check the smell. It was fine, my nose is obviously weird. These are very quick easy to make, I used 2 chicken breasts and sliced each one into 3.  I suppose they’re not overly healthy with being fried but I suppose you could try baking them....nah stick to frying! 😆  I served with the wedges of lime and also a bit of Hellman’s Roasted Garlic Mayonnaise.  Absolutely delicious! Aga conversion: I used a regular frying pan on the boiling plate for this recipe as they really don’t take long to fry. Will I make this again? Absolutely! The husband loved them too.

                                          Toad with Browned Onions & Madeira Gravy Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Real Food  Buy the book here  Review: 4 stars for this one! It was really good. Nice and tasty, easy enough to make and very filling. I served mine with homegrown garden peas and some mash (I have batched up portions of mash in my freezer from my homegrown potatoes to make it easy), but the mash was definitely not needed. I have included the gravy recipe too. This was just as good as the Hairy Dieters one. This takes slightly longer to make, so I made this before I started on the Toad recipe. I used my local Butchers Old English sausages (thin not thick - so I used 8 instead of 6) I also used Serrano ham as the supermarket didn't have any Proscuitto or thin sliced Pancetta.  For the gravy I used regular red wine, and I also used red onions as I had some in the fridge to use up. Forgot to take a photo of the entire finished Toad in the pan! I

Pasta with Spicy Sausage, Basil & Mustard Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Real Food  Buy the book here  Review: This recipe had a slight disaster but I think I recovered it well by improvising.  This is how it started, I placed my Asda shopping order on Sunday as usual and it was due to arrive today between 2-4pm. I thought myself VERY lucky (pride comes before a fall...) because Asda do a Finest range of Pork and Chilli sausages (I don't have an Italian Deli near me, so I figured these would be the best substitute - also my local butchers is shut on Mondays).  The shopping arrived and lo and behold! What item do you think they didn't have in stock...yep, you guessed it...the pork and chilli sausages! They sent me Cumberland as the substitute. Oh no! What do I do? No time to go out and find another alternative...oh well, never mind I'll just empty the sausage meat out as per recipe and mix it with 1.5tsp of Peperonicino (Chilli) powder, I mean Peperonicino

Sausage balls, Mustard Cream Sauce Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Eat  Buy the book here   Buy the Kindle Version Review:  🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟  OMG I don’t normally like homemade meatballs....until now! This apparently is Nigel’s favourite meatballs ever, MINE TOO! Amazing, soooo tasty  😋 ! Loved it! What more can I say? Pretty quick to cook took around half an hour. I used:  Pork & Pepper sausages from my local butchers and added a dessert spoon of finely grated parmesan, plus a tiny bit of fresh thyme and about a teaspoon worth of chopped parsley and about half a teaspoon of garlic puree. See the a few thoughts section on the recipe page. Beef stock was a regular Knorr (not the rich beef one) beef stock pot.   Don’t add salt, (I've made this recipe before and added it and it was too salty. This time I didn't add any and it was perfect. I served with a 2oz per person portion of tagliatelle as I didn’t have pappardelle in and couldn’t be arsed making any