A small update from the kitchen of our Masterchef

The chicken in ale sauce works well (although the sauce does look reminiscent of a Thai green chicken curry, but you can taste the ale). The ale soft cheese - well I'm now onto my second attempt and so far it doesn't look terribly promising (actually it looks downright revolting), but that's because ale isn't a fantastic starter for cheese. - which we knew. The barley polenta still needs to be made, but I need to get some more (edible) cheese for that.