by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 11, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
This is part of an experiment I did a while ago and definitely one for the carnivores. Veggies, look away now. I went to one of the two excellent local butchers and ordered some ox cheeks and heart. Goodness, just dug out the receipt and it was 25th September 2013,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 4, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2, Meal Plan 4
Are you doing pancakes this week? They are usually made with eggs, milk and flour, but have you tried them made with just flour and water? Doesn’t sound all that appealing does it. But I couldn’t tell the difference between my usual ones, made with eggs and milk, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
I have 3 under counter sized fridges, 2 of which are supposed to be overflow ones, and not turned on most of the time. Such is my lack of discipline, that until recently all 3 of them were packed to bursting. I have now managed to reduce the third one down to a third...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 25, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, My Diary
I made some lovely fritters for dinner yesterday. I grated the last of the carrots, small and wrinkly, fine chopped onion, fine chopped white cabbage and a grated parsnip that was going a bit soft. I would normally grate some potato and add that too, but as we would...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 22, 2014 | My Diary
I am an active member at my local WI and, can you guess? I do the catering at our lunches. Were you surprised 😉 I recently saw a Freegle post offering 30 Gu ramekins, which I picked up. I thought they would be perfect for WI lunches, I have asked our members...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Had one of those pricing surprises I talk about today. I made a Spaghetti Bolognese using a recipe, not one of those mince splodge things I do, when I add all kinds of things to stretch the mix. I used the recipe from a book called Silver Spoon, which is the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
This was my dinner this evening. I picked up a small pack of liver at my recent shop at Morrisons. I really like it, Mike doesn’t, so this will make two meals for me. 200g lambs liver, Morrisons 59p 100g cooking bacon, chopped into dice, Asda 81p/500g, 16p 200g onion,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Did some lovely muffins this afternoon. Mike kept looking hopefully in the tin and saying he wanted some biscuits. So I had a look in the cupboard to see what we have….lots! I have had two packets of coconut powder in there for a while, which is why we ended up with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 30, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Well now, you lucky people! I was over in Tunbridge Wells today and decided to pop in to Morrisons to get some bits and pieces. While I was there I spotted these avocados at 4 for £1. At this price, I can tell you about one of my very favourite salads. This is another...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 24, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, My Diary
Today, I did a demo of ThriftyLesley food at a local church, although I am atheist, to about 15 ladies. In one hour, we managed to produce 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 2 dinners. Started off with a bacon and sweetcorn pie, to demonstrate the oil pastry, and put some...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 21, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
I am supposed to be recipe testing the anchovy paste, but after chicken-gate this morning, guess what we’re having this eve? So I thought I would write up this recipe. It’s something I found somewhere or other and tweaked, as you do. A few years ago, a very good...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 21, 2014 | Budgeting, My Diary
arrgh, I am SO exasperated right now. I have been trying to sort out an energy bill, finally got through last week after waiting on hold for 23 minutes and listening to the SAME SONG all that time, interrupted every few seconds by a recording telling me how sorry they...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 17, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Round Up Post
Anchovy Paste Bought a tube of anchovy paste a while back, with the idea of exploring ways of using it here. Have looked up the price on mySupermarket, but have noticed that the blighters seem to be steadily removing Basics type lines, not that this tube is, but it...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 14, 2014 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Dinners, Valentines Day Ideas
Valentines Day Dinner Well, I’ve had a ponder for your Valentines Day Dinner, and this is what I have come up with. I think it is a beautiful menu, I hope you do too. We have a Smoked Salmon and Crispy Toast starter, a main of a warm Asparagus, Bacon and Egg...
