Sam's Silver D of E Cookery Blog

 This week i went for simple chicken goujons as my whole family likes them and had never made them before. 400 grams Chicken Breast Mini Fillets (or 2 chicken breasts cut into strips) 3 tablespoons Plain Flour 1 Large Free-Range Egg 80 grams Dried Breadcrumbs (ideally panko or coarse dried breadcrumbs, or fresh breadcrumbs, 6 tablespoons Oil add Fine Sea Salt And Ground Black Pepper 1. If you are oven-cooking the chicken, preheat the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7. 2. Put the flour in a wide, shallow bowl. Season with salt and pepper and stir. Break the egg into a second shallow bowl and beat with a fork until smooth and pale. Tip half of the breadcrumbs into a third shallow bowl. 3. Coat each chicken strip first in flour, then egg, then breadcrumbs, pressing firmly and turning to coat on both sides. Set aside on baking paper. 4. If oven-cooking the chicken, brush a baking tray with 1 tablespoon of oil. Place the chicken pieces on the tray and brush generously but lightly with 3 table...

 I decided to make steak and chips as steak is my favourite food (especially fillet). it was also quite a skilful meal as the chips had to be the right size and steak had to be cooked perfectly as I like medium rare steak the most. 3 large baking potatoes, Maris piper or king Edwards 1 tbsp of oil 3 fillet steak at room temp Salt and pepper Pack of chestnut mushrooms Sprinkle of dried parsley 1 garlic clove Knob of butter 2 tbsp Boursin or other garlic and herb cheese 1. Preheat the oven to 200.c/180.c fan. Peel and chop the potatoes so they are about an inch thick. When finished put the 2 tbsp of sunflower oil - vegetable oil works too - into a large sandwich bag and put in the chips. Seal the bag and shake to make sure the chips are covered. Lay out the the chips on baking tray with baking parchment.  Bake in the oven for 30 mins. 2.For the steak press and rub salt and pepper into the steak on both sides. To fry the steak put oil in the pan and cook on high for 1 min on each...