by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 12, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
If you are like me and grow tomatoes in your garden, you are likely to have large amount of them at this time of year. I was looking for ways to use a lot in one go and came up with tomato risotto which used 400g for me and my husband. Oh my goodness, was it good! The...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 1, 2024 | Dinners, Less than 500 calories
If you grow tomatoes, it’s odds on that you will have green ones to do something with at some point. This year (2024) had prolonged periods of rain which combined with warmth, when we had it, is perfect conditions for the blight virus. And sure enough, my large...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 23, 2024 | Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Uncategorized
Red lentils are packed full of protein, quick and easy to cook and very cheap to buy. So when I made this recipe, I couldn’t wait to try them. The red lentil nuggets are tasty just as they are, but you can dip them in good old tomato ketchup, mayonnaise or brown...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 23, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Stretch A Chicken
What do I need to make a chicken and onion pie For a 20cm pie, serving 4, you will need Pastry 200g flour, I always use self raising, but it doesn’t seem to make a lot of difference 100ml vegetable oil about 100ml water Filling 100g cooked chicken 3 stuffing...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 12, 2024 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
After yesterdays flavoured and potted cheeses, todays sandwich filler is a chicken and sun dried tomato paste. Simple and delicious. What do I need to make chicken and sun dried tomato paste This quantity makes a full jam jar full – 250g. It will keep in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 8, 2024 | Lunches, Other
Having made cranberry curd and experimented with other fruit pulps, I decided to have a go at savoury ones and started with tomato and basil and my good ness it’s good. A great way to get some vegetables into veggie phobes. Great on toast or in a sandwich with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 25, 2024 | Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Poaching A Whole Chicken
This Coronation chicken jacket potato recipe is part of a plan, starting the week with a whole poached chicken, to stretch a medium chicken to last a family of four all week. Twenty eight portions! What do I need to make Coronation chicken baked potato For 4 portions,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 24, 2024 | Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Poaching A Whole Chicken
This red cabbage and chicken Waldorf salad is part of a plan, starting the week with a whole poached chicken, to stretch a medium chicken to last a family of four all week. Twenty eight portions! What do I need to make red cabbage and chicken Waldorf For 4 portions,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 22, 2024 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
I fancied a little chocolate pudding yesterday, one of those ones that makes it own sauce. I found a recipe and set too. I’ve changed it a bit, cutting the sugar by half as it seemed too much, and it was. What do I need to make an old fashioned self saucing chocolate...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 19, 2024 | Dinners, Lunches, Sides
Peperonata is one of those things that we have pretty often. It is a pepper and onion stew that goes with many things, can be used as a main dish or as a side. We first started having it with cheesey gougere, which is choux pastry – I must blog that recipe one...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 25, 2024 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 3, Meal Plan 7, Puddings / Desserts
Sunday Lunch DP and I often have a Sunday lunch at, erm, lunchtime, then in the evening we have a pudding, often a fruit crumble with custard or evaporated milk. I always used to make custard using dried powder and UHT milk. Then one day, having spotted value custard,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 7, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
This is a delicious mixed vegetable roulade making use of what might be a wasted part of a cauliflower, together with pumpkin or butternut squash. Made into a tasty sponge, then rolled and filled with a creamy egg and mayonnaise filling, with shredded lettuce for...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 17, 2024 | Bready Things
Did you know we have a British Sandwich week? Now in its 29th year, the annual event, held in May, is a showcase for the UK’s sandwich and food-to-go sector. there is even a trade body for sandwiches. The sandwich was invented in England when so the story goes, in...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 2, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
This is a Northern Indian cabbage recipe, packed full of vegetables, pulses and spices. Make it hot if you like things that way. Personally, I like a lot of spice and hardly any heat When I first made this, we had it with Matar Paneer (cheesey peas) and a home made...
