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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Rosemary chicken and roasted sweet potato

Winter is all about hibernation indoors. Settle in with friends, get cosy and enjoy a feast of warming Dishes like this chicken one my kids love it

Gammon (Ham) Steaks with Whiskey Sauce (goes nice with the colcannon recipe on this page as well)

The word gammon goes back a long way, at least to the fourteenth century. It may have come into English from French, as the word jambon starts being used for ham in the middle-French dialects around the same time. Once gammon meant any rear haunch of a pig, or specifically the ham: later it came to mean some of the side cuts as well, though only as long as they were still attached to the pig's haunch while the meat was being cured. Today it simply means ham, and "gammon steak" is ham steak