Salad

A variety of leaves, herbs from the garden, goats cheese and chicken breast from the other day. Chicken is optional, just a way to avoid people mistaking you for a vegetarian.

For dressing: oil and salt, just a little, enough to bring out the full flavour of the salad leaves.

Chicken

For those who wonder (you know who you are): no, the chicken did not receive psychotherapy before its passing.

Kale, green cabbage and haricots verts go really well with this extraordinarily juicy chicken but I was all out of vegetables and in no mood to go the grocery store, hence the Spartan arrangement. To achieve said juiciness brown it all around, add some home made stock - I used vegetable - and let it cook until ready. It takes about half the time it would take to roast in the oven. From the gravy I made a simple sauce with parsley and shallots, but you can just as well use it as is.

If you use frozen, genetically modified and artificially fed chicken you will need to use a lot of spices to hide the flavour. Mine required only salt, honey and a pinch of cayenne pepper.