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When I ordered the shopping I added a chicken, intending it for cookbook project later in the week. Well, it came with a use-by date of today so I cooked it today.

I used "A Book of Middle Eastern Food@ by Claudia Roden

I love this book, mostly for its anecdotes and snippets from mediaeval Arabic texts. I use it quite a lot, and there are recipes in there that we love (the cheese pies, for example, and her egg dishes).

Today I made Aubergine slices stuffed with cheese followed by Persian style roast chicken stuffed with fruits.

We didn't like the aubergine so much. The cheese just didn't work for us. The chicken, however, slathered with butter and filled with cinnamon flavoured prunes, apples and dried fruits, was delicious. She suggested serving it with rice - I used the juice from the prunes and some chicken stock to cook the rice, and it worked really well. Clean plates all round :)