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Wonderful Tasting Chicken Pasta

Just 'invented' a particularly wonderful tasting chicken pasta recipe that's extremely simple and quick to make! In fact it was so delicious tonight that I've decided to put it on here and list exactly what went into it 🙂

Ingredients

Some pasta from a 500g pack of Morrisons Organic Pasta (how much is up to you, usually approx 100g per person)

2 x sprays of Fry Light Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1 x 400g tin Heinz Classic Cream of Tomato soup

2 pinches of Schwartz Basil

5 taps of Saxa Ground Black Pepper

Half the breast from a Morrisons cooked chicken with stuffing

Tablespoon or two of Morrisons Organic Cream

How To Cook:

1) add pasta to a pan of cold water, spray in oil (helps stop pasta sticking together)

2) bring to boil and cook pasta for 10minutes

3) drain pasta. Add tin of tomato soup. Simmer the soup for 30 seconds, add the basil and pepper. Stir.

4) Simmer for 2 mins, then add the chicken breast (tear into sizable chunks) and stir in.

5) Simmer for another minute and add the cream. Simmer for a further 5 mins.

6) Serve! YUM!

Comments

Yeah I know it's pretty obvious, but am I not a genius for using a tin of soup instead of a jar of pasta sauce, eh?! also the reason this is on here is cos tonight this stuff tasted better than anything I can remember that's resulted from a pasta sauce jar!

Morrisons Fan

Yes, as you can see I'm somewhat a fan of Morrisons stuff. I should start with their pasta – I don't know why, but Morrisons Organic Pasta (it comes in shells and twirls) tastes better than ordinary pasta, I don't know why, but it just does! try it if you don't believe me.

Their cooked chicken is also very nice and their beef(esp their Prime Sirloin) lamb and pork is known to be the best of any supermarket (I know someone who works for a government food agency and they tell me this too). Sainsbury's SO Organic meat is also pretty good. I'm not a hugely taken by Morrisons eggs, they're alright, but I get organic free-range farm eggs from a newsagent which are actually cheaper and better. Also Co-op bacon and sausages top the bunch for me.

Anyways hope you enjoy the recipe if you try it out.

by james -

Oasis @ Wembley – Flippin’ Amazing MATE!

Was lucky enough to see Oasis @ Wembley, July 9th 2009

IMPORTANT NOTE: No Adjectives Can Describe Just How Good These Guys Are Live. You have to be there really.

Oasis At Wembley 9th July 2009Just when I was thinking legendary Britney’s’s O2 show was well up there, untoppable perhaps, these guys turn up at Wembley and knock everything into perspective. Now I wasn’t near the front, but was on level 1 and this meant I got an amazing perspective of the stadium and whole event, especially the throngs of people in the standing area flowing like waves in a stormy sea. The venue was incredible and the diversity of fans remarkable. The Liam lookalikes wandering around drunk add to the iconic atmosphere. The sound system was staggeringly clear and loud, until it cut out for a minute during Wonderwall and all you could hear was everyone singing the chorus. I was meant to be seated, but stood up for 100% of the concert, mostly singing and rockin with the group of fellow Oasis nuts I’d met around me, including some dude who’d seen them in 1994 – in other words akin to the girl I’d met in Bulgaria who’d seen Nirvana live!

Also made me realise too just how many  hits they’ve had. Well glad I went with Andy, a true fellow Oasis fan, somebody who deserved seeing something like this. Still the best band in the world, but then I would say that cos they’ve been my fave band for a decade and I was MAD FOR IT. Next day I played a tennis match against a guy in West Byfleet, turned out he too was at the gig, only he’d had a standing ticket, got there really early and was in the front enclosed section, feet away from Liam & Noel! Lucky Lucky Lucky man! But I don’t look back in anger, you gotta roll with it and I won’t go crying my heart out neither 🙂

Playlist that night: Rock n’Roll Star, Lyla, The Shock Of The Lightning, Cigarettes & Alcohol, Roll With It, To Be Where There’s Life, Waiting for the Rapture, Masterplan, Songbird, Slide Away, (What’s The Story?) Morning Glory, My Big Mouth, Importance Of Being Idle, Half The World Away, I’m Outta Time, Wonderwall, Supersonic, Live Forever, Don’t Look Back In Anger, Falling Down, Champagne Supernova, I Am The Walrus

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Absoultely Brilliant Britney!

Britney CircusMy review on ticketmaster, fans:

What a performance and what a show. Second time I’d seen her live and this time was just as good as the first! What a stage set, the amazing light/multimedia show, the great dance routines, the whole thing exuded such energy. Also contrary to popular belief in the media, Britney only mimed about 3 songs during the whole show, not only could you tell this by the sound of her voice, but we had binoculars to check double sure. Throw in the New York Circus and Ciara as support plus the hand-clapping sing-a-long ovation brought about by  her classics Toxic, Hit Me Baby One More Time & Womaniser, the whole night was Britney Brilliant!

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James’ Ultimate Travel Blogging Kit

Laptop with 160Gb MP3/Wireless/DVD/Phone/3.2MP Camera.

I was wondering what Mark Beaumont, the guy who cycled round the world, used when travelling and this is my equivalent. I’ve been using the Asus for a few months now, first went to Paris with it and it’s fantastic. The whole kit only weighs about 2kg, packs very small and is perfect for backpack travelling!

For The Geeks Out There :

Asus 4Gb EEE PC (+webcam) mini-laptop – used for wireless/Firefox/Skype/MSN/MS Office
Freecom XXS 160Gb USB drive – this thing is tiny!
Sony Ericsson k800i + 2Gb card
Trust USB mouse – nicer than the touchpad
Holux GPS + MSI Bluetooth dongle – case you get lost
Quality Sony Headphones