‘Convenience’ Food

I’ve never shopped at Iceland until recently. My image of Iceland was that ropey looking prawn ring that always appeared on their Christmas adverts. However all that changed when a Food Warehouse opened on a retail park close to me. You have to check out a new shop don’t you? It’s freezer upon freezer of frozen goods with fresh, canned and alcohol shelves along the way. Sack of potatoes anyone?

Mr S picked up a couple of bits yesterday and decided to get us some Friday lunch treats instead of the shakes we have been taking to work.

Luckily he bought chicken wings for himself and as he was working from home this didn’t pose a problem as they were oven bake. However, the chicken katsu for me was another matter. Oven AND microwave. That’s not very ‘convenient’ is it? How many people have an oven at work? I couldn’t save it for home either as we don’t have a microwave.

So we had to cook the chicken pieces last night and I then only had to microwave the sauce and rice. To be honest it would be just as quick to make this from scratch!

 

Verdict? Pretty tasty really but 25 mins in oven for the chicken and messing about with the microwave, sauce in one min. Still, only two quid.

Oh and they sell these:

I only eat these if I’m a little hungover and they are better than buying them from Greggs as the pastry is crisper.

That’s why ThiswasDinner goes to Iceland.

Spicy Sausage Bean & Cheese Boats

These are my Greggs inspired pasties. On the rare occasion I go I have the sausage, bean & cheese melt. Mr S finds it hilarious that wherever I go, I ask for the item in full. I don’t think its funny, I’m just very thorough!

Cook a chopped red onion with some garlic until soft then add a chorizo cut into small chunks.

When the chorizo is cooked, remove from the heat & add a tin of beans & a few chilli flakes for good measure.

Using a piece of ready made puff pastry, roll it out into a rectangle & cut into 4.

Add chunks of cheese to the cooled mixture then put some of it onto each of the 4 pastry pieces. Fold into pasties & brush with egg, 2 of mine came apart, hence boats.

We ate the 2 that stayed as actual pasties for cold lunch on Sunday. They were just as good cold.

This was dinner… 9th November 2013.