roast chicken, boulangerie potatoes and cauliflower cheese

Summer's coming, and we've also decided to have chicken and sweet leek pie this week, so we need a roast chicken - woo! Everybody says Simon Hopkinson has the best roast chicken recipe - and they're bang on although curiously I've not cooked anything else from that book.

Slightly controversially I redo the boulangerie potatoes premiered a couple of weeks ago, and annabel karmel's baby cauliflower cheese, with delicious' chicken gravy.

The negative side to all this mix-and-matching is the work surface is halved by various books, and the bottle of wine doesn't help.

Food of the Milos
You leave ana mccarthy for one second and she's immediately buying ready meals for him - tsk! In my drunken absence yesterday she buys him a Little Dish cottage pie, which he scoffs in seconds, leaving me only a small portion for 'tasting'. I eat his pudding to show him.