![]() ![]() In the end we gave up and had Magnum ice creams from the freezer for dinner. Except for the sweet and sour chicken balls and the crispy (kale) seaweed it had to be the worst Chinese takeaway either of us had ever eaten. It started well – the Chinese seemed busy, we got a socially distanced pint in the pub garden next door while we waited for our food and it smelt amazing in the car on the way home – but that was pretty much it. Googling we took ourselves off to a town about 10 minutes drive away to get some dinner. That excellent food pub I mentioned does call and collect stone baked pizza, burgers and hot dogs, and you’ll bet I’ll use trips to Canterbury as an excuse to pick up some of the delicious, make to order sushi from Happy Samurai to take home with me for dinner.Ī couple of Saturday’s ago we fancied a Chinese. And besides, there is an Indian in the village that is pretty decent (and knocks money off your bill if you walk to collect it and pay in cash) and the fish and chip shop smells amazing. Now, not being able to get practically any takeaway of excellent quality you can think of delivered right to our door from our phones anymore is not as big a wrench than you’d think, if anything it is going to make getting a takeaway as more of a treat, rather than a ‘I just can’t be bothered’ option. However, of course, moving to a rural village we can no longer get Deliveroo. There is a drinking pub in the village and another with a reasonable public footpath to with excellent food, and I still have an off licence where I can pick up last minute ingredients (though, I grant you it’s not the East Dulwich M&S Simply Food) for recipes. When eventually there are offices to return to, thanks to the train station in the village and the high speed train, commutes are pretty much the same. Moving from the city to the countryside, because of working from home and social distancing was not actually as big a change as you’d have thought. I’ve also updated this post since I first published it in 2020 to include air fryer instructions if you can’t be fussed with shallow frying at home – and if you want to make it even healthier!Īs some of you might have noticed from Instagram, in July we bought a house (I would not quite put the date we moved out of London as July too, because that unintentionally happened just before lockdown in March) in Kent where I grew up. Much healthier than the version you’d order from the Chinese it is also ready in just 40 minutes – the time it would take for you to order and wait for delivery! With a rich sticky sauce that is full of flavour without the neon colour we’ve all (somehow?) become used to I’ve also packed in plenty of chunks of fresh juicy pineapple – my favourite part when we order in! If you’re looking for the ultimate Friday night treat to make instead of ordering in, look no further than my recipe for Sweet and Sour Chicken. Wednesday, 08 February 2023 Sweet and Sour Chicken (Air Fryer Option!) ![]()
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