Home made popcorn, less than half the price of shop bought Was poking about in the Armageddon cupboard today whilst writing a meal plan for next week and trying to use some existing stocks. While poking about and mentally constructing meals, I decided to use some...
Home made blackcurrant jam Blackcurrants are incredibly good for us, very rich in vitamin C and polyphemols when eaten raw, e.g. In a classic summer pudding like this wonderful looking example from Delia Smith They are easy to grow, not needing much looking after and...
How Supermarkets Get Us To Buy What We Don’t Really Need First published in 2017, still as relevant today. Now that we are thinking about rejoining society after our enforced Covid lockdown, perhaps we need to be even more aware of the ways we can be persuaded...
Cheapy Bread Rolls. An hour from bag to table style="display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5491882204699170" data-ad-slot="6565539645" Made Broccoli and Lentil Soup for lunch today and had no bread left at all, so made some of these...
Chocolate Muffins. Quick, easy, great for packups and very cheap I first wrote this post in May 2017, and here we are 3 years later. Mike was again ‘needing some chocolate’, so I made him some of these. I’m baking much more whilst in lockdown and...
Chocolate Fudge Cake, made with / out eggs I’ve updated this post a bit to make it look better. But the images come from the time when I did this experiment, in 2013, and they aren’t very good. I’ll try and repeat everything and take better pictures....
Chicken liver parfait I first came across a recipe for chicken liver pate when I was working with Weezl on what is now Cheap Family Recipes. I recently made a BBC Good Food version of chicken liver pate that had lots of ingredients. Wondering how I could frugalise it,...
Stuck in limbo in a loft extension It’s ages since I’ve done a catchup post. I’m trying to update lots of recipe posts to make them look nicer and be more usable, bring back cheap family recipes from the dead with all the recipe loading that...
Peanut Butter Noodles. Add chicken or fish, or keep it vegan Abel & Cole I found these Peanut Butter Noodles a month or so ago whilst cruising round the Abel & Cole site. I was going to link to the recipe, but it isn’t there any more. There is a similar one...
Faggots and gravy What are Faggots? Faggots are a traditional British meatball made from offal, especially pork, with herbs and onions for flavouring and breadcrumbs to stretch them out. The offal is minced and is usually a combination of heart, liver and fatty pork...
Weekend Baguette Recipe Baguette – crispy on the outside, light and fluffy on the inside, and with a lovely texture that’s chewy and delicious. Would you like a foolproof baguette recipe? And what’s more, it’s an incredible 6p per baguette! Weekend Baguette Recipe...
Chocolate Scones My husband was desperate for some chocolate, but we were in Covid19 lockdown, so didn’t want to go to the shops for something so frivolous. So I thought I’d bake him something chocolatey as I still had some flour. Hmm, how about some...
Bacon & Sweetcorn Pie, mash and peas, 32p a serving, Meal Plan 1 This recipe is one of those extremely variable ones. You can bake this as a pie, or steam it as a pudding and change the filling in a great many ways. This version costs just 32p a serving,...
Onion Bhajis I made these onion bhajis recently and was very pleased with them. In these times of stripped supermarket shelves, recipes using minimal ingredients are even more useful than normal I used gram flour (chickpea flour), but if you don’t have that, ordinary...
