Last night we treated ourselves to another of the Marks & Spencer "The Cook Menu" range of ready meals. This time it was the Chicken Breasts topped with Mozzarella & Basil Pesto.

This was considered also to be a healthier option, which was denoted by the little sunflower imprinted on the package.



A deliciously moist chicken breast, topped with Mozzarella cheese and some really tasty pesto, and accompanied with some cherry tomatoes. It was cooked in 25 minutes, and I served it along with a pouch of Tilda mushroom rice, and a tin of Green Giant Sweet Corn. We both enjoyed it very much and I know it is something that I could quite easily replicate on my own at home.



If you'd like to take in some of what we have seen today hop on over to the cottage to see some holiday snaps.

Tonight I am going to actually cook. ☺ WATCH this space!

Shhh . . . I'm on holidays and not really supposed to be blogging, but I just couldn't resist showing you what we had for our dinner last night. This is Lamb Rump with a sweet Honey Roast Parsnip, Rosemary & Breadcrumb crust.

A part of the Cook Menu ready meals put out by Marks & Spencers. I picked up a few of them for us to eat while we are away. It gets a little bit expensive eating out everynight, but the cooking equipment in the cottage is a bit inadequate for anything other than heating things up . . . so I told Todd, if am going to have to eat ready meals . . . it has to be M&S ready meals . . at least there will be some meat in their gravy, unlike some I could mention but won't!

Our first night here we had their beef burgers in a cheese crust along with some of their chips and they weren't bad! I've always liked the M&S burgers. Pretty lean and moist, and the cheese on top was quite tasty.



This was our Sunday lunch and I have to say it was also very tasty. The meat was a little bit tough and not as tender as I would have liked, and the crust didn't get crispy like I would have liked either, but that crust was oh so very delicious. It had a delicious proportion of parsnips to bread crumbs and was nice and moist and very flavourful. I loved that the rosemary in it was not overpowering in the least. I am going to try to replicate that stuffing topping when I get home, because we both really liked it a lot!



I served it with some M&S mash and an assortment of their vegetables . . . some chantenay carrots and baby cabbages. Delicious.

I would give this meal a hearty 8 out of 10 for deliciousness, and ease of preparation. (I took off two points because the meat was a bit tough.)

8 out of 10 ain't bad! Beats the pants off of Mickie Dee every time!