by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 1, 2020 | All Recipes, Other
Our little apple trees are usually very generous and I give lots of them away. We have a Discovery, a very early variety, that doesn’t keep and indeed should be picked and eaten still standing by the tree to enjoy it at its best. It’s a huge cropper and I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 7, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
What is falafel? Wiki says that falafel is a common dish eaten throughout the Middle East. The fritters are now found around the world as a replacement for meat and as a form of street food. Wiki talks about the chickpeas not being cooked before making falafel, which...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 5, 2020 | All Recipes, Other
From September onwards in the UK, the hedgerow plant blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), or sloe, produces fruit in abundance. Known as drupes, the deep purple fruit have stones that are large for the size of the fruit. When sloes are cooked, they have a deeply plummy...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 2, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
This recipe started off as a savoury pancake recipe using a cauliflower. I made it, and warmed it in the oven with the sauce already on it, and it really didn’t work at all. It was dry and I’d managed to kill much of the flavour. Very disappointing What...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2020 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
This is a very simple loaf to make that just happens to be a vegan bread recipe. Just mix everything together and leave for the gluten to develop, then shape, prove and bake. No kneading required If you like, you can mix everything together and leave, covered, in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 17, 2020 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Other, Sides
I made some lovely caramelised red onion chutney yesterday and I’m really pleased with it. The only problem is, I don’t know whether to call it red onion marmalade or red onion chutney! I’ve been looking at various recipes and descriptions to try and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 12, 2020 | My Diary
Insomnia It’s almost 1am and I can’t sleep, so I thought I’d come on here and chat to you. I have a fan on in the bedroom and it isn’t quite as ferociously hot as it has been – a mere 28.2 degrees in the sitting room. It’s just one...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 9, 2020 | My Diary
This Weeks Meal Plan Monday – Halloumi deep fried in batter, with some root chips that I bought frozen. A local pub does veggie fish and chips by deep frying halloumi, so I thought I’d give it a go Tuesday – Cabbage & Potato Subji, with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 9, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Jacket potatoes filled with cheese are one of the most popular ways to eat a baked potato. When I was a child, we had cheesy jacket potatoes quite often, where the soft, fluffy inside had been scooped out, mashed with cheese, put back in the skin, and baked until...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2020 | My Diary
This Weeks Meal Plan Monday – Bean Burgers, Root Chips and Red Cabbage Coleslaw. The root chips are frozen ones that I splashed out on. My husband particularly likes these burgers. Tuesday – Miso Crispy Topped Veg, I thought I’d posted that recipe,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 27, 2020 | My Diary
This Weeks Meal Plan Monday – Punjabi Cabbage, Split Peas, Matar Paneer and Nan. I’ll write up the Punjabi Cabbage and Matar Paneer recipes Tuesday – Mushroom & Olive Bake. Yes, I’m trying that mushroom and olive bake again, might even get...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 25, 2020 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Other
Greek Cuisine This easy pitta bread recipe are the ones I made on a Greek Cuisine course I went on with my husband at Claverham College. One of the things we made were these home made pitta bread. I think you will be able to see from the picture that they are pillowy,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 22, 2020 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Puddings / Desserts
I made these rather wonderful easy poached pears without wine today when we had guests for lunch. I thought I’d see if I could frugalise the recipe. I have described these as with no alcohol, although I realise that the process of simmering a wine based...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 20, 2020 | My Diary
This Weeks Meal Plan Monday – Mint & Lemon Pasta Pesto. I wanted to use mint from the garden. I made something similar to this Sage, Lemon and Pumpkin Seed. The mint is rampant in the garden, and I picked all the tender top shoots off, added some lemon...
