tom norrington-davies' chicken noodle soup with mint and lemon

Summer is deffo on the way; it's bright, warm and sunny and even better (well relatively anyway) there's an inset day at school so we've got an extra day to entertain a hyper-active five year-old after the weekend.

The best way is the simplest way - four hours swimming, a quick trip to the supermarkets, getting an exhaust put on the car, some gardening before finishing with some intense contact now he's been inspired by the mighty Lions to actually want to learn to pass the ball. He also likes his new future Welsh cap name, Milo Wyn Barnes.

Job done, we can kick back with some more redundancy-based bickering, pink wine and pseudo-fasting chicken noodle soup. Although without the noodles, obvious, as they're full of evil carbs.

Interestingly tonight we make it with mini-chicken fillets rather than the big boomshankas as they were on offer, but ultimately they weren't as good. The meat was drier and tougher, although I suppose next time I'm lured by cheap breasts I could simply add them to the poaching liquid later.

Also, did anybody catch the new Simon Hopkinson show on More4? Thoughts, other than about the total shiteness of the website?

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chicken noodle soup with mint and lemon - Tom Norrington-Davies, was Delicious now The Owl Book