jamie oliver's chicken & leek pie and bill granger's gooey chocolate cake

Ahh, the best laid plans... Today we've got a late lunch/early-ish dinner planned with Top Foreigners TVS Collins and his delightful wife, Jacqui. I used to work with Jacqui at Flextech circa 1997, then we moved into their flat in Dyers Lane, then we bumped into them in New World in Wellington, and they looked after us royally - even letting us steal their friends.

However *however* we do not plan for the fact Bill Granger's cocking gooey chocolate cake, which we've already road-tested on another Top Foreigner, would take a billion hours!

Still, eventually it's done - and it's a bit gooey-er this time, which is probably better - and we can crack on with Jamie Oliver's chicken and leek pie, this time with added pastry dinosaurs for Milo and Tristan's pleasure:

As Jacqui points out, her and Ana did manage to drink pretty much two bottles of wine on their own, so despite the two-hour delay to proceedings, things couldn't have been that bad:

sources
chicken & leek pie - Jamie Oliver Christmas Special
gooey chocolate cake with raspberries - Bill Granger, Feed Me Now, p230