All that is in the fridge

Tonight I cooked what we had left. It was flipping decent.

Decent enough to put on here anyway (whatever that suggests!)

We had half a roast chicken left over from yesterday. It is nice to do the roast on Monday when you feel the drag of the week upon you. It kicks you into Tuesday which is nearly Friday innit?

We had 1 orange and 1 yellow pepper, 1 onion (we had more but that is all that is needed), 3 cloves of garlic, 2 courgettes, some pancetta, tin of tomatoes, 1 pint of chicken stock or gravy, 2 sticks celery, new potatoes, sea salt, pepper, sugar, dijon mustard, mixed herbs. I am pretty sure a glass of red or white wine would be delicious in this but I drank it all.

I chopped all the veg small and stripped the chicken from the bones. Wash the potatoes and then boil for 20-25 mins. Drain and leave to stand.

In a big Le Creuset (yeah yeah I know), fry up the onion, celery, garlic and courgettes in some butter and olive oil (oil stops the butter burning). Add some salt to stop the onions burning in the oil. (I dunno why she swallowed a horse, she'll die of course. Sorry). In a separate small frying pan, fry the pancetta up and when golden and nice, chuck in with the sweating veg and stir. Add the chopped peppers to the mix and sweat/fry off.

In the frying pan while it is hot, chuck in the stripped roast chicken and heat through, crisp up, brown off for 4-5 mins. Chuck it in with the veg. Add to the big pan the tinned tomatoes, herbs, a spoon of sugar, tsp of dijon, stock and stir through.

Get it bubbling and meanwhile halve the new potatoes you boiled. When you have the bubbling stew, add the potatoes in and stir round.

Simmer for 15 mins and eat.

It was decent and properly what was left over. I am chuffed as it really made sense and the flavours, textures, consistency and body all we great. Very tasty indeed.