Chicken Parcels

Young China lady: "Ah Prof. Chaviuer your chicken is very rubbery"
Prof Chavieur: "Well thank you very much"

A standard of the 40 something divorcée trying to impress a young lady, Chicken Parcels is level one of the burgeoning culinary dilettante. Also known as "Chicken in the Cloisters", Chicken Parcels requires a breast of chicken, some stuffing and a parcel, silver foil being the chosen fabrication .The cloaking or cloistering of the meat retains its juices whist infusing said breast with the stuffing's aroma, a favourite of the Surrey contingency being mushrooms a brie cheese.

Being a cheeky dish I recommend a cheeky Italian Valpolicella 2009.

Legend has it that the concept of a chicken being parcelled first appeared in one of Hildegards of Bingens visions which appears in an illumination  in the Liber Scivais manuscript. It is rumoured that  the cloistered meat's aromas cured migraines.

No biblical reference to date

Chicken Noodle soup

We don't fiddle much on the roofs here in Lower Cranfield but we do enjoy a good Chicken Noodle soup.  The Chicken Noodle soup is comfort food supreme, the nurse maid's ointment for all ages. Jewish in tradition, the noodle soup has its roots in the old testament, a symbolic representation of Noah's parting of the red sea. 

For a real good Chicken noodle soup, make sure the stock is "en royale", I boil mine for 7 hrs. De scum regularly until you have a liquid the colour of unhealthy urine.  Add  noodles and dumplings at ones leisure.

Waitrose have a chicken stock which will provide a competent alternative if a little salty. Noodling is a "jazz" term for idle fingering.

Chow Mein

Welsh Rarebit

Chip Butty

lamb cutlets

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