by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 20, 2020 | Cakes, Bakes and Puddings, Dinners
my meal plan for week 20Jul20 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 15, 2020 | Sides
Coconut & Lime Rice – vegan I have been doing tandoori chicken quite often lately. A very easy dish, that is just diced chicken, tossed in tandoori spice, and pan fried in a little oil, just enough so it doesn’t stick Normally, I do an Indian spiced...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 14, 2020 | All Recipes
Readers Recipes – Puds These recipes are from readers of the Facebook Group, a very creative community. The cakes are to die for! Dark Chocolate and Orange Cake Bakewell cake Lemon Curd Swiss Roll Daily Bread Almond and cherry cake Slush Puppies Chocolate...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 13, 2020 | Cakes, Bakes and Puddings, Lunches
my meal plan for week 13Jul20 Time for an update, haven’t done one for a while Horrible Jobs We’ve been painting in the new loft conversion for a couple of weeks. There is much to do still, what with wardrobes, multiple shelving and architraves. I loath...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 10, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Other, Sides
Puchka tart. What’s that? Complete deliciousness on a plate, that’s what Puchka tart. What’s that? Complete deliciousness on a plate, that’s what The U3A cooking group met at my house this week. When wondering what to make, I thought, like last December,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 7, 2020 | Cakes, Bakes and Puddings, Lunches
Savoury Baked Oats I love baked oats and have made many a different variation of a baked oats recipe. Having tried a dozen or so sweet versions, I began to wonder about savoury baked oats. A bit of Googling later and I realised that it wasn’t really a big thing....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 29, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes, Bakes and Puddings
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 26, 2020 | All Recipes, Other
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 25, 2020 | Budgeting, Saving Money
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 8, 2020 | Cakes, Bakes and Puddings, Lunches
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 31, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes, Bakes and Puddings
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 12, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes, Bakes and Puddings
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....
by Thrifty Lesley | May 11, 2020 | All Recipes, Lunches
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,...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 6, 2020 | My Diary
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...
