So yesterday I really enjoyed my food.
Late breakfast: lined 2 'holes' in a deep muffin tin with pancetta, cracked an egg into each one, seasoned with black pepper, then wrapped the pancetta over the top to enclose the egg, and baked them for 10 mins, then grilled the top to make sure it was crispy.
Dinner: roast chicken; put the chicken on a 'trivet' made out of sliced onion, quartered two lemons, one inside the chicken cavity, the other pushed between the legs and the breast and the wings and the breast. Coated it with olive oil and seasoned it with sea salt, black pepper and dried oregano, then added a small glass of white wine to the roasting tin with about a litre of water. So that when it was roasted the gravy was fabulous. (I served a small amount of the onion as a sort of relish on the side, but threw most of it away).
Served with mashed swede with pancetta; peeled and diced the swede and boiled until it was tender. Drained in a colander. In the same pan, melted a very large chunk of butter and fried half a pack of pancetta (diced) and a finely chopped clove of garlic, along with a good shake of chilli flakes, salt and pepper. When softened, added the swede back in, stirred it around to give it a good coating with the butter and flavourings, and then used a stick blender to puree it.
And baby fennel, par-boiled, then slowly fried in butter until golden, with the juice of half a lemon added towards the end of cooking.
Absolutely gorgeous. (Even if I say so myself 
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