Carrots with orange, garlic and rosemary

This one's adapted from a Sainted Jamie recipe. We had toad in the hole for tea, and I wanted a little something to jazz up the veg.

You'll need:

enough carrots for three, sliced
a few stems of rosemary
three or four whole cloves of garlic
a little butter
an orange
a teaspoon of sugar

Cut the orange into eight, and place the pieces in some boiling water, together with a knob of butter and the carrots. Add a teaspoon of sugar, and then the rosemary and garlic.

Once the carrots are cooked, drain, and discard the herbs. Keep one of the pieces of orange, chop it into small pieces, and add it to the carrots. Squidge out the innards of the garlic, and add that too, together with another small knob of butter and lots of salt and black pepper.

Lemon and rosemary chicken with feta and tomato salad

We made Captain Jack a dress this afternoon, at the Shipley Art Gallery (they were having a Top Shop Toy Shop day...).

To celebrate his cross-dressing exploits (picture to follow on View from Nappy Mountain sometime soon), I stuck some chicken in the oven for tea.

You'll need:

a couple of chicken pieces
half a lemon, sliced into large chunks
a drizzle of olive oil
some rosemary from the garden

Chuck the chicken in a roasting dish. Drizzle the olive oil over the pieces, thrown in the lemon and rosemary, and stick a bit of black pepper on top. Roast in the oven at around 200 degrees for an hour (or until the juices run clear when you stick a knife in the chicken).

We ate this with a green salad (natch), a rice, onion and pepper salad (does what it says on the tin, and was really to use up yesterday's rice that we'd had with the sticky pork ribs), and a feta and tomato salad.

2 large tomatoes, preferably fairly ripe, and sliced
whatever feta you've got left in the fridge (assuming you may have cooked roast vegetables, feta and couscous earlier in the week)
some nice balsamic vinegar (although maybe not as nice as the stuff I accidentally bought in Morrisons on Monday that I thought was £1.99 and turned out to be £5.99...)
salt and pepper

Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, and leave to marinade for half an hour.