Yesterday, when all my troubles seemed so far away, I had a strange array of vegetables left and oddments of frozen meats in the freezer. I wanted a proper english meat and two veg dish and to use up as much stuff as I possibly could. This turned out surprisingly nicely; but then when I started out I did have exceedingly low expectations.
I found two packets of chicken cubes, which like many things recently had been intended for BBQ kebabing. I really dislike any meat without sauce. So for these, I fried off some onions (from my garden again, not the veg box - yay me!). Added the obligatory garlic and just a little chilli. I then added in a fairly finely sliced yellow courgette from the veg box until it all went mushy and I added half a carton of leftover passata, thyme and basil. This all melded together in a thick but moist enough sauce.
Somehow I didn't really have enough potatoes left for a side dish for 4. So, along with these, I roasted up some cubed acorn squash. To these I added paprika and cayenne pepper for a patatatatatas-bravas type effect. The Acorn squash I'd cut bigger than the spuds, naturally it shrunk a bit in the oven and went wrinkly - but proved much more popular like this, than when I try to sneak it into a curry. Lastly, all served with some very straight-forward green beans.
Such an unexpected success, that I may try it again in the future.
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