spicy coq au vin from a crazy?

Friday night I walked all the way from Chiswick to Notting hill. I was bored and it felt like a good idea. I saw some very big houses and on the way back a young pretty black girl with a wonky afro waved and me and said "hello, hello", I did the same back and she stopped. She told me that she hadn't seen me in years so I told her I didn't know her (sometimes I pretend back that I know them but maybe that's a bit mean? I didn't do it this time anyway) and she said yeah but we were all humans anyway. We chatted for a bit and she told me that I looked like a crazy like her too and then we had a hug and I gave her my flower (a daffodil) and she said, "don't you end up crazy and homeless like me ok".

Photobucket" border="0">

Saturday was boring and the only exciting thing was drawing a bunny on a t-shirt and painting some of it brown and then I had some mango sorbet in a scooped out orange half. I would like to have taken a photo but there are no batteries for the digital camera and we couldn't afford them after I spent all the money on fish and chips and fabric paint and plasticine. The plaice I had sucked, cod is the tastiest but I feel guilt when eating it because it is over farmed and going extinct?

Sunday I made my first ever coq au vin. It was okay. I found a 'quick coq au vin' recipe on the bbc website and followed it loosely. I couldn't afford olive oil so I had to use what we had which was chilli infused olive oil and I fried a yellow and red pepper, half an onion and some mushrooms in that. We struggled with the two chicken leg portions I had got and spent a long time trying to rip and cut the flesh from the bone and then threw it in the pan 'til it was a bit golden (I covered it in cayenne pepper for no good reason) and poured in a mini bottle of cotes du rhone. I watched it while it sizzled and finished of the last dribbles of wine from the bottle, I tried a spoonful and it was far too spicy and not thick enough so I put lots of creme fraiche in it and served. We had it with boiled buttery potatoes and it was yummy I loved all the wine soaked fatty chicken but it was still a bit spicy, I want to make it properly next time.