Add the salt and sugar to the pan, bring to the boil then reduce the warmth. Add the hen to the pan and simmer on a medium warmth for around 20 minutes till the chicken is cooked through. To make the polenta, add the milk and hen stock to a pan with a generous pinch of salt. Add the polenta and cook over a medium heat, stirring, for eight minutes, until it’s the consistency of mashed potato.

Some people lose hours buying online for sneakers, for me it’s chilli oil and different hot sauces. I dribble it on every thing – toasties, pizza, fried eggs, noodles, cucumber, ice-cream, myself – and no one (except my #lockdowndog) can decide me for it. Taking a tip from chefs, I bought a giant workplace tape dispenser ($7.50) and a roll of white masking tape ($4) to maintain on the kitchen bench, ready to tear off and label something in sight. No extra UFOs in the freezer, no more unsealed packets of food, and no extra mystery spice jars.

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Shake the jar really well to vigorously combine the dressing, then pour in a little at a time. The huge revelation of lockdown was not that I like cooking (that’s at all times been true) however that I want cooking as a approach to unfurl on the finish of the workday. Leaving the “office” at 7pm to cook dinner without a commute to decompress, I can lose myself in dicing, measuring and watching the pot. This realisation has helped me slow Food & Cooking down as a substitute of racing to get the job done. Being cooped up with a few home-schoolers has been a challenge, so most of my cooking has revolved around feeding small people, roping them into kitchen activities or tempting them with new flavours.