Chicken and Chestnut Mushrooms In A Cheese sauce

Welcome to Claire's Kamikaze cooks this is a leftover recipe and it can be used with any sort of mushroom or even you could use Turkey leftovers.

Ingredients 

A punnet of Chestnut mushrooms or any mushroom or edible fungus

Left over cooked chicken / turkey 

Simple white sauce which is 

(3 tablespoon of plain flour

50 g of butter 

Half a pint of milk or more if needed , )

Stir in 50 g of grated cheese to the white sauce I used a posh Italian cheese

Salt Pepper 

Method 

Preheat the oven to 190 C

Wipe over mushroom s and place in the bottom of an over proof dish

Next add the chicken/turkey

Pour over the sauce stir round and cook in the over for 25 minutes ensuring the chicken is heated all the way through.

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me

Mmmm 5 Things you didn’t know about me it could turn out like one of those rubbish click bait articles you see when you’re galloping round the Internet but honestly it would be I assure you ( fingers crossed squarely behind back ) I won’t be dealing you that I’m an MI5 spy but surely a true soy would tell you that just to fox you.

1. I’m Scottish 100 % through and through I come from the Scottish islands of the Outer Hebrides and I was born in Daliburgh and lived in South Uist. I came to England when I was about 3 ish .I’m also half Cornish and half English so I’m rather mixed up but that’s the way I like it , Scottish Independence why just let me paint my face blue and call me William Wallace.

2. I do like boxing films Rocky you name it I love it don’t ask me why I just do though the film the Champ did rather make me cry when I was younger.I haven’t seen Raging Bull though do I really must see that at some point I have heard that it is a much watch. Yes I do like the cheesy Rocky films in particular the one that is set in the cold war Rocky IV

"I must break you  "

This how I feel when I do battle with a self supermarket checkout and it is not letting my items through in particular my tea as nothing gets in the way of my beloved tea.

And the training montage in Rocky is obviously my approach to housework ( not )....

And yet I don't like real boxing except boxing at the Olympics where they wear the special head gear I like and watch that . I bet you are feeling a little surprised from this revelation now !

3. I am actually allergic to cats and dogs but less so to cats weird that but true but I didn’t know this for certain till I had an allergy test where it revealed I was allergic to cats,dogs,horses and grass with a seafood intolerance as well.But as I grew up with cats my allergy to cats is lessened but still I’m allergic c,est la vie 

4. I can literally write about anything and everything hence why I blog I’m very ecliptic and that’s what I love about myself. You’ve got to love yourself not in a narcissistic way but in a self boasting I’m fantastic sort of way.I desperately try not to put myself which at times can be very hard not to do but I love social media for helping me out on this. At the same time I also dislike social media for the witch hunt that it can become.

5. I don’t do sliced cheese sandwiches no no and no again not very exciting I do but I’ve got this far and I thought what else could I write perhaps that I’m a princess from an exotic royal family but I’ve shunned my rich life style to drink tea and keep cats.

Library Goals That You Want In Your Life

Aren't libraries just magical you can lose yourself for hours in adventure,intrigue murder and transport yourself to all manner of countries and also firmly square yourself as an observer in the life of someone else. You really can't beat the smell of books in particular old books and libraries full of old things where it looks as if people have just stepped out of the room and could come back at any minute to fetch their things.To lose yourself in a book is the best sort of self indulgence ,I think next to drinking tea and keeping cats and it is not in the slightest bit selfish.

To be able to sit down in your favourite armchair and just relax and not care about the worries and woes in the world for a fraction of time is the deepest joy, books are marvellous and libraries are the best treasure chests there are out there.

Books are for reading and touching and smelling if you have never smelt a book particularly as mentioned an old one you must there is no smell like it.Libraries are beautiful and should be saved whether they are in an old house or modern building libraries don't have to be big you can happily create your old reading space in your house with very little effort.




Our libraries are under threat and they are closing at at alarming rate as councils seek to reduce their budgets even my own village centre library is under threat and it has only been open 6 years built with Lottery funding and it is a cause we are fighting.





Libraries can even be your old much loved red telephone box also often incorporating a debifilartor so you can see in more ways then one and life be breathed into something.


So old or new make sure you love your library they are our heritage our past and very much our future , and how I love them so.

Review Of The Hoover Sprint 21.6 Cordless

Can Housework excite you you wouldn't have thought so but I am actually genially excite with my new acquisition thanks to the kind people at Hoover for sending it to me. As a child of the 70's and 80's that's the 1970s and 1980's and not before I assure you ! in those times I remember carpet sweepers and they were big and clunking and they seemed cumbersome maybe it was because I was knee high to a grasshopper or had an aversion to housework.


The Hoover Sprint  a run time of 50 minutes due to its Lithium -Ion batteries( 21.6 v) enough time to do the house and drink multiple cups of tea with the time saved.A fingertip control button allows you to activate the brush bar for a deep clean on your carpets, you can deactivate the bar to allow cleaning on hard floor surfaces too.

It is light weight 3.kg and manoeuvrable.


Being cordless you can clean almost in your home and the Led lights illuminate dark area making them easier to clean and lightweight it is less of a strain on the arm.You can clean from all sorts of angles as the bar reclines enabling you to clean comfortably under sofas etc, it offers excellent cleaning power round the home and by the flick of a button you can turn the revolving brusher offer allowing you to go from capeted areas to wooden floors /tiled kithcen /bathroom areas etc with ease. The brush bar will ably lift dirt and debris out of your carpets and the Hoover Sprint is a doodle to empty and it has a filter you can clean when it is necessary to do so.


I think this would be ideal for my mother in law who is 92  this year and very sprightly and as does all manner of exercises to keep her fit ( I actually think she is fitter than I am ) and she is partially sighted to so the Led lights would be useful as well.

The Hoover Sprint is easier to store and charging is a simple as well just plug in and well wait for it to charge. It takes around 6 hours for it to be fully charged then you’ll have 50 minutes of use to clean to your hearts content .In fact you’ll have enough time to do an average 3 bedroom house twice before the need to recharge.

There is a very handy LED battery status shows you when it needs to recharge. The Hoover Sprint flexes ,pivots and bends to easily manoeuvre around and under your furniture.

A 0.8 litre bin that’s easy to see when it needs emptying , the weight of the bin and the motor are distributed at the bottom of the Hoover Sprint cordless.

The Hoover Sprint 21.6 retails at about £199 but there are deals out there to be had on this handy addition to your cleaning family.

Disclosure I was kindly sent this by Hoover and all my thoughts words and opinions are my own.

Saying Hello Is The Sweetest Goodbye

It’s a very long time not to see your child for s whole month while they settle into university and of course you settle into not having food disappear. Your husband says you don’t need to sent food parcels but surely this is what Amazon pantry was invented for ?!

And stuffing Belvita breakfast biscuits and little fruit pots etc , ready meals into a survival bag it was akin to the Berlin airdrop and Mr T asking if there was anything left in the shop.A month is far to long not have seen the teen ( I was going to alter what I call him but I will figure than out next year !)

University is so much work the teen showed us his university work schedule and it is truely and utterly mind boggling.The costs that students have to bear is quite unreasonable at times like take for example 5p a print or 9 p  double sided.So we’ve brought the teen a printer which we will take up next time along with a headed clothes house/airer which really is a God sent when the university charges so much to tumble your clothes.