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Morrocan lunch with a bit of help from Jamie and Le Creuset

Sunday was a lads and Dad day. Martha and lisa are away in Wittering and the boys and I were going to see Bon Iver in the evening, so we decided to have lunch together and watch Man City v's Man utd and the mighty super-hoops v's Chelsea. I went for the comfort food option and got out two of my trusty Le Creuset dishes to cook two tagine style dishes from Jamie does.... Morrocco. Whilst I would love to own some tagines, I think Mrs Cook would kill me for buying even more kitchen ephemera. I used my oval casserole for the chicken and the shallow casserole for the beef ... both as always worked really well but on reflection I think the beef may have benefited from a bit more depth to allow it to cook really slowly. regardless of this the end result was received very well by my two hung over sons. For me the chicken shaded it but only just ... a bit like QPR did! Chicken Tagine   Ingredients 1 whole chicken (approximately 1.5kg), preferably free range or organic, skin-on