Fish and Chorizo Soup

Last week at work was all quite exhilarating lets say and I am now moving departments to hopefully a more manageable job in the hours I work (9 till 3). My friend Sam Millergill is also moving departments which means our food banter on a daily basis will no doubt come to an end. What a shame!! The good news is that she brought a recipe in anyway and said it was the best thing she had cooked and tasted in a very long time.

With that as a recommendation I had no choice but to cook it at the weekend. Fish and Chorizo Soup (well, more of a stew by the time I had added a few new potatoes and extra seafood!). It was completely up to all she had cracked it to be - completely tasty, comforting, different and was even better the next day when we had the remainder for dinner. The kids enjoyed it even though I had added a little extra chili as I couldn't get hold of any really spicy chorizo.





Serve with good crusty bread and butter and a good sauvignon blanc.

I have to mention that although I got it on a scrappy piece of paper I believe via Chinese whispers it needs to be attributed to the legendary Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - one of my all time heroes. Thank you Hugh. I hope you don't mind me spreading the word!

Chicken Out

One of the things I feel most passionately about is the quality of the raw ingredients I cook with.

I believe that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Chicken Out campaign highlights the problem fantastically and hopefully has shown a great many shoppers why they should spend a little more when buying chicken and eggs.

The conditions in which some hens were being raised was shocking, but it is easy to see why the farmers are pushed to produce in this way, if they are constantly being pressurised into reducing prices.

If we all are prepared to change our buying habits, and choose our meat and eggs based on quality rather than cost, the farmer's incentives change and the lives of millions of hens will change too!

Of course as a result, we have tastier healthier chicken and eggs to eat and who doesn't want that?