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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Super Easy and Tasty Roast Chicken with Peaches

So a few weeks ago I arrived back from work with the usual "What will I have for dinner tonight?" question running around in my head. Those who know me will understand why I have this question my head all the time but suffice it to say, food occupies a significant part of my life, after all I did go to Chef`s school...
Anyway long story short a full shop had not been done as yet that week so on gazing into the fridge for a few minutes it all came together nicely.
So here goes...

Ingredients
4 servings
• Four large Organic Bone On Chicken Breasts
• Four Organic Peaches -- Summer in Ontario has them everywhere... sweet
• One large bulb of Garlic
• One Stick of Butter unsalted
• A good Olive Oil
• Salt and Pepper

Method
• Preheat your oven to 225C or 450F
• In a large dish i.e. Pyrex, place your four Chicken Breasts skin side up and season well with the salt and pepper.
• Slice the Peaches into eights and scatter into the dish making sure to place a few underneath the Chicken breasts.
• Break up the Garlic bulb leaving each clove in its skin, Scatter all around the Chicken and Peaches.
• Break the butter into pieces and place it all over the chicken
• Cover everything in your Olive Oil.
• Cover the dish in tin foil and place in the oven for between 45 and 50 minutes. Remove and uncover and place in the oven for another 20 minutes until nice a golden brown.

Serve with the sweet roasted peaches and garlic along with a side salad or what else you fancy.
Enjoy… It’s delish....

Friday, February 26, 2010

Yeah I know It's been awhile !!

How's it going all ?, Does anyone even read this blog anymore ?.. Granted I haven't exactly been active on this lately other things have taken priority in the last year. So what's been happening. Well at the time of my last post I was out in Kelowna, BC with a client for two weeks which was the business. Apart from the client being cool, he and I managing to consume our fair share of beer in the two week period, Andrea and I got to enjoy the wonderful food and vineyards of the Okanagan Valley for the weekend. It was beautiful. During this time a house purchase back in Toronto was ongoing because renting is a waste of money and a mate in the bank sorted me out.. Nice :)
So straight after moving into the house I was back to Ireland a month for Dave's wedding and a boat load of booze and touring around with Andrea. It was great to be home again but it's going to take a long while before things get back right after the global meltdown.
Back in Toronto in mid September I immediately started job hunting to get the hell away from CMS which was an absolutely terrible situation and had to be purged from my life and memory, Given that I was over the year employed I was safe so I took my time searched for role I want which I found with Specops Software as Technical Evangelist I started in January and I'm loving it so far, No more driving all over Canada, no more abuse and no more CMS.. phew.
With all the pressure the months have flown in, I've been renovation my Kitchen since before Christmas and am finally nearing the end, Doing a bit of US travel with Specops speaking at conferences etc and generally just enjoying myself again.
Why am I not posting on this.. I don't know I spend all time working on work, house, cooking etc. I just don't make the time I suppose but going forward I'm planning on transforming this into more of a technical blog focusing on IT infrastructure solutions using Specops Products. That's the plan anyway.
I've been in Canada a year and 7 months now, things are going well, I'm not going back to Ireland anytime soon maybe Sweden :) but not in the short term.
Take care

Shay

Wednesday, June 17, 2009