The chicken that nearly got away

We celebrated trolley 426, noticed at reference 1, with a full-on chicken dinner. Wine for the occasion was from the Tesco finest range, with Stellenbosch in large letters. It did very well, and I dare say I shall buy some more. But inspection of the website turned up by Bing at reference 2 is the wrong one. Far too grand. So inspection of the small print on the back got me to reference 3, which looks much more likely: 'Origin Wine Stellenbosch handles over 80 million litres of wine per annum and exports 72 million litres. Our services include Own Label brand and product development, wine analysis, label design, wine treatment and blending'. So the Tesco wine equivalent of an own brand blended whisky.

Regular bacon on this occasion, rather than the dry cured stuff from Manor Green Road.

Forgot to turn the plate around before snapping, but it tasted pretty good. Not a huge chicken, so we did just about half of it at the first sitting.

Rounded off with apple pie. I learned that his low profile apple dessert is a pie, not a tart as I had thought. Tarts are low profile, but only have under pastry, not over pastry. A plus was that, the supervisor being absent, we were allowed our yellow custard hot.

The second sitting did the other half of the chicken cold.

While we had chicken soup for the third sitting. Chicken soup which, on this occasion, did not include either pearl barley or lentils. Boiled up carcase provided the stock. Left over rice, fresh potatoes and Sainsbury's soft noodles provided the calories. While some scraps of chicken, some celery, some cabbage and some mushrooms provided a touch more flavour. I might say that while the noodles from the 'Basics' range were quite adequate, I don't think they were as good as those from Sharwood's. But the soup was very good, nonetheless.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/08/trolley-426.html.

Reference 2: https://stellenboschvineyards.co.za/.

Reference 3: https://www.originwine.co.za/.

Reference 4: https://www.sharwoods.com/.

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