Cooking with Colm O'Gorman: Orange and Chilli Chicken
Colm O'Gorman: This Orange and Chilli chicken does that with bells on. Vibrant and bright with bags of flavour, it always makes me smile. It is best served with simple and savoury sides. It is quite sweet, so they are needed to balance out the meal. We always have it with plain boiled rice and stir-fried greens.
It got bright at about 6:30am here this morning, and better yet, it is still bright enough at 6:30pm for me to get out for a run with the dogs at the end of the day. There are no street lights where I live, so once it is dark, a run after work is pretty much impossible. It is one of the things that has made this winter tougher than most, but conversely, it has only added to the joy and anticipation I feel as the days get longer.
Spring has most definitely sprung. The daffodils are on their way up, the trees are budding, and the birds are in full song at dawn and dusk. The gorse is already in bloom along our lane and, as I run past on warmer days, the beautiful coconut fragrance from its blooms only adds to the feeling that we are finally pushing past the cold darker days of winter. I know, I know, we may well have wet and cold days to come, but the shorter days are behind us and things feel much brighter to me at least.
