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… Wicked Mole Sauce, Rice and Veg<\/span><\/h4>\n

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So I\u2019m moving to Bath in about five weeks.\u00a0 I did a deal with my mum \u2013 I could store some of my stuff in her loft, if I board out her loft.\u00a0 That\u2019s what this weekend is about.\u00a0 The loft has been boarded out, the first carload of my stuff has been moved up there and now I am cooking.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

My sister, Selina, has had her eye on this meal for a while, so I\u2019ve saved it for her. She\u2019s here tonight so it\u2019s time to cook it. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Normally when I cook away from home, I am really very prepared.\u00a0 I have all the ingredients bought and I have any bits of kitchen equipment I don\u2019t think my host will have with me. Tonight I am not prepared.\u00a0 So, after the DIY tasks are done, it\u2019s a quick shop and then cook.\u00a0 Or it should have been. However buying the Okra (ladies fingers) proves unsuccessful in the supermarket, so it\u2019s a detour to an Asian supermarket to try to buy the Okra \u2026 they have it so all\u2019s well. The other issue is the lack of dried Chipotle chilli, which I can\u2019t get in ether shop so I substitute some chipotle paste instead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In general the cooking went quite smoothly.\u00a0 The time taken was awful. The worst one yet. Everything seemed to go quite well. I guessed it would be one of those that went a bit over time \u2026 but it was one that went badly over time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t actually looked back over all the dishes, but I do get the feeling that I miss most often with the chicken dishes and I do again today. Badly. The worst time to date I think.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The chicken goes in quite late into the recipe (almost two thirds of the way through the written recipe). You poach the chicken, which I know is a little unusual, but I really like it.\u00a0 It keeps it very moist.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is however not cooked in time.\u00a0 Everything else is, or at least nearly is, done in time.\u00a0 It\u2019s a horrific ten minutes late \u2026 but it\u2019s a good one.\u00a0 There is chocolate in the sauce.\u00a0 A bit odd (before today I\u2019ve had chocolate in sauces with venison but not much else savoury) but nice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad time \u2013 good meal.\u00a0 I can\u2019t blame the foreign kitchen really \u2013 I spend the best part of my Christmas holiday cooking in it so its not like I don\u2019t know the cooker and where things are \u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who with:<\/strong> Mum, Gordy, Selina, Matt and Gav\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How Long:<\/strong> Twenty Five Minutes and Forty Two Seconds\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t