The Get Well gift

I've decided to make a chicken and mushroom pie – the filling immersed in anise flavoured chicken stock and a drop of double cream – the “pie” is not pastry but – remember the baked jacket potatoes – a sliced potato top.

Slice the chestnut mushrooms and sauté

in a drop of rapeseed oil until they have lost all

the liquid and have some colour

Make the sauce – make a velouté sauce and

add diced chicken and the mushrooms

Decant into individual foil containers, add a

layer of baked jacket potatoes

Extra pots of sauce – everyone likes gravy!

I haven't finished yet – there are hints and tips and more to come.