Well, sort of simple. You know that when a food blogger says “simple” it is a very relative term!
The Imperial College undergraduates have returned to University which means three things.
- The Union Bar is a lot more crowded
- I have to go to various fresher welcome events (damn me for being on society comittees).
- I have to get up before 9am for a change so that I can get there in time to teach.
Well, maybe four things. The college smells a lot more. This what happens when 18 yr old mommy’s boys are left to fend for themselves. They forget about things like washing and changing clothes.
Points 2 and 3 together have meant I’ve had a few days where I had really late nights and fairly early mornings so I couldn’t do my usual three hour marathon cooking. So instead I had to have relatively simple meals. This one impressed me the most.
These are some honey and mustard chicken thighs. They’re easy to make, pretty cheap and very tasty. The marinade is just honey, Dijon mustard and English mustard mixed together. The chicken can be left in the oven for 40 minutes while you do other stuff and after that it’s just a case of crisping up the skin and maybe adding a bit of cream to the marinade to make it into a sauce. I had these with some string beans and crisped new potatoes.
The recipe was so cheap and easy that I’ll have to budget it and put it on the student recipe page.
MY other meal of the week was properly simple! This is griddled lamb steak with roasted mediterranean vegetable couscous. It also was suprisingly cheap because the lamb leg steaks were half price. 
All I did was marinate the leg steaks in harissa while I went out, then came back and griddled them for a few minutes either side. The cous-cous took about 20 minutes to make. I shoved the vegetables in the oven with olive oil and garlic for 10 minutes till they were tender then mixed with the couscous, some coriander and toasted pine nuts.
In the next few days I’ll devote a few hours to catching up recipes. Blame the Civil Engineering students for me getting behind! If they didn’t get so many questions wrong I’d have finished marking their work hours ago! 
And now we have the baked honey and mustard chicken thigh recipe.
Well, sort of simple. You know that when a food blogger says “simple” it is a very relative term!
The Imperial College undergraduates have returned to University which means three things.
- The Union Bar is a lot more crowded
- I have to go to various fresher welcome events (damn me for being on society comittees).
- I have to get up before 9am for a change so that I can get there in time to teach.
Well, maybe four things. The college smells a lot more. This what happens when 18 yr old mommy’s boys are left to fend for themselves. They forget about things like washing and changing clothes.
Points 2 and 3 together have meant I’ve had a few days where I had really late nights and fairly early mornings so I couldn’t do my usual three hour marathon cooking. So instead I had to have relatively simple meals. This one impressed me the most.
These are some honey and mustard chicken thighs. They’re easy to make, pretty cheap and very tasty. The marinade is just honey, Dijon mustard and English mustard mixed together. The chicken can be left in the oven for 40 minutes while you do other stuff and after that it’s just a case of crisping up the skin and maybe adding a bit of cream to the marinade to make it into a sauce. I had these with some string beans and crisped new potatoes.
The recipe was so cheap and easy that I’ll have to budget it and put it on the student recipe page.
MY other meal of the week was properly simple! This is griddled lamb steak with roasted mediterranean vegetable couscous. It also was suprisingly cheap because the lamb leg steaks were half price.
All I did was marinate the leg steaks in harissa while I went out, then came back and griddled them for a few minutes either side. The cous-cous took about 20 minutes to make. I shoved the vegetables in the oven with olive oil and garlic for 10 minutes till they were tender then mixed with the couscous, some coriander and toasted pine nuts.
In the next few days I’ll devote a few hours to catching up recipes. Blame the Civil Engineering students for me getting behind! If they didn’t get so many questions wrong I’d have finished marking their work hours ago!
And now we have the baked honey and mustard chicken thigh recipe.
