Chicken wrapped in Parma Ham

It has been a very exciting weekend in our household as Imogen eagerly awaited her letter on Saturday morning telling us whether she had got in to Loughborough High School or not. She seemed completely unphased and I think we were more stressed than she was!

Suffice to say she got in so the worrying is now over - lets hope her little sister gets in in a couple of years!

Her friend Danni came over to stay and I was given strict instructions on what to cook! Chicken stuffed with Boursin wrappen in Parma Ham with a lovely white wine sauce. This was vary naughtily accompanied by homemade chips and a healthy serving of broccoli and went down very well!

Just need to find a house to buy now and all the stresses are over!

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?