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Slimming World Recipe

Chicken Pot Pie

With the night’s drawing in and the weather getting colder this meal is the perfect comfort food. Enjoy!

Serves: 4 Ready in: 1 hour 5mins Syns per serving: FREE

Method:

1. Boil the potatoes and swede for 20 minutes, then drain, mash with a splash of water and season to taste. Meanwhile, put the garlic, carrots, thyme sprigs and crumbled stock cube in a pan with 500ml boiling water and bring back to the boil.

2. Simmer for 3 minutes, then add the chicken breasts, cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the leek, cover and simmer for 10 minutes, then remove from the heat and leave to cool slightly. 3. Strain the stock into a jug (you only need 200ml) then whisk in the quark, mustard powder, parsley and some freshly ground black pepper.

4. Roughly chop or shred the chicken, then divide the chicken and veg between 4 deep individual pie dishes (or 1 large ovenproof dish), discarding the thyme.

5. Stir the quark mixture into each dish, spoon over the mash and flatten with a fork. Spray with low-calorie cooking spray and bake at 220°C/fan 200°C/gas 7 for 25-30 minutes. Serve hot, with Speed veg.

Ingredients:

• 500g floury potatoes, such as Maris

Piper or King Edward, chopped • 500g swede, peeled and chopped • 2 garlic cloves, crushed • 2 carrots, diced • 3 thyme sprigs • 1 vegetable stock cube • 4 skinless chicken breasts • 1 leek, sliced • 200g plain quark • 1 tsp mustard powder • 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley • Low-calorie cooking spray

For more information visit www.slimmingworld.co.uk

OTHER SERVICES Dronfield Church Stained Glass Restoration Project

St. John’s Church in Dronfield holds a remarkable collection of 13th century glass. The church has exciting plans for the restoration of their historic windows to conserve them for future generations to appreciate.

The church, along with support from heritage and funding experts, is putting in a bid to restore its medieval stained glass in the chancel. The glass, some of which dates back around 700 years, is likely to be some of the most important in our region and has a rich and hugely interesting history.

The window to the right of the altar, for example, makes very little sense when you look at it first off! That is because, during the dissolution of the monasteries, the church fell into disrepair and the historic glass fell out of the windows and was left to ruin at the foot of the building for decades. Many years later, when the church was restored, the stained glass was returned to the window but, presumably deliberately, was put back in the wrong order to highlight what had happened!

Just next to it in another window are owls and monkeys, as well as a (not terribly) flattering representation of Edward III. It is thought that the monkeys are a sardonic reference to some of the things that the king was doing at that time and, if you look closely, you can see all kind of subliminal and, perhaps subversive, messages. Even seven hundred years ago, in the most holiest and revered of places, people were making statements!

St. John’s is just one of many hidden gems all across North East Derbyshire which highlight our rich history. The project, if successfully funded, will help to restore and rejuvenate this historic, and hugely important part of our local history and heritage. The conservation process will restore the stonework and encase the precious glass in something simlar to a glazed sandwich, often referred to as ‘isothermic glazing’. The 1970’s perspex will be removed and light will once again be allowed to shine through the glazing as it was meant to be.