08.08.08: Ready-roast chicken, snap peas, oniony rice salad and more salad

He pulled together an unexpected feast of coconut-lime rotisserie chicken and a spring onion rice salad (both courtesy of Waitrose); cooked up some snap peas; and mixed in a colour treat of a salad with cherry toms, pomegranate seeds, and leaves. More of last nite's wasabi dressing rallied for an encore performance.

HE SAYS: I didn't really enjoy the taste of the chicken, I think they muddled them up in Waitrose and I got this one instead of the bbq variety. Snap peas were okay but I should have steamed 'em instead of boiling (I like them nice and crunchy, which these were not).The pomegranate added a sweet and sour touch to the salad and the rice was savoury good, wholesome and on sale, what a bargain!

SHE SAYS: Salad was crunchy and tart, just the way I like it, and tho' the oniony rice salad imprinted its scent indelibly upon the tongue for the evening, it was delish - I found myself spooning up the last bits from the carton by way of seconds. That funky chicken, tho' - not so yummy, with an overpowering, very odd artificial coconut flavour. Waitrose chicken is usually moreish, so we'll overlook this little hiccup. Snap peas played the role of virtuous veg rather limply, I'm not sure even finished mine before we headed out to the gig.

29.06.08: Ready-roast chicken, spicy polenta, and snap peas

So Sunday didn't feel like Monday, He hunted and gathered the rotisserie half-chicken while She whisked up polenta with roasted corn kernels and chili flakes, then steamed some sugar snap peas. A supa-fresh salad with avo and Jersey Jewels looked on.

SHE SAYS: All good - didn't get chickened out by the well-seasoned bird; the snap peas had plenty of crunch, and the polenta was a star - roasting a couple of cobs with chili flakes and stirring in the kernels added excellent texture and perked up the flavour considerably. I am loving the Jersey toms and suspect they'll be regular guest as long as they're on the store shelves.

HE SAYS: The polenta was extra good tonite, especially enjoyed the grilled corn aspect but also the consistency was spot on, and far from the warm glue like gunk it so easily can turn into. The rotisserie chicken was the bbq variety and it didn't disappoint neither. The oriental leaf salad was still going strong from Friday and I'm still lovin' those tomatoes dearly.

05.06.08: Ceasar Salad and racetrack grub

Separated for the evening, he rustled up a quick a non-traditional Caesar salad from bits and pieces picked up on the way home from Waitrose including rotisserie chicken, chunks of beetroot falafel from thier Delicatezze range, iceberg lettuce, croutons, parmesan cheese and some left-over sprouts. She grazed on organic-pork-sausages-inna-bun while at the track watching her pick of the ponies fail to bring home the bacon.

SHE SAYS: My pork bun was much more tasty than it looked - unfortunately, there's no way for you to judge this since the photo I thought I took was merely a blur. (Was fumbling surreptitiously with camerphone while well-meaning work colleagues stood nearby... was trying to shoo them off to the stands where I said I'd join them...didn't want to explain odd photo-taking!) There were six small skinny sausages with twisty ends unceremoniously pushed into a rather nice flour-dusted bap. No lettuce, no tomatoes, no sauce...what do you think this is, a restaurant? But the sausages were piping hot and superbly herby, and the bap was fightin' fresh. I may have gone home empty-handed, but at least I wasn't hungry.

HE SAYS: A bit of a hodgepodge of a meal but still not bad. The new beetroot falafel was very nice but perhaps didn't add much to the mix of tastes. The sprouts were a day or two over their sell by date and were a tad musty but still edible. I have to keeping reminding myself that less is more and I should've stopped adding ingredients after the rotisserie chicken, which was great and only 40p (since I bought the last two pieces right before Waitrose closed). That's what I call a deal!