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Farl made with dried potato with sauted veg and salami or chorizo. When I was testing the recipe today, I tried a bit hot and straight out of the pan with some apricot curd, oh me oh my, it was delicious!
This is breakfast on days 3 and 6 for Meal Plan 8. Lovely, crispy, savoury pancakes. Filling, warming and satisfying. 75g white cabbage, 58p/kilo, 5p 100g self raising flour, valu 45p/1.5kg, 3p 15ml veg oil, Asda £1.25/litre, 2p 10g sweet chilli sauce, Asda 150ml/£1,...
A simple, quick and filling dinner. If you are not following meal plan 8, add any extra veg you would like to and vary the seasonings to give more variations 240g cooked chicken, 680g meat gleaned from a 1.3kg/£3.22 bird, £1.13 150g onion, Asda 2kg/£1.08, 8p 200g...
Wondering what to talk about today, I thought I would have a go at a savoury curd, as discussed in the cranberry curd post. I had lots of olives in the fridge, so now was a good time. I mulched them up with a hand blender and mixed them with the eggs and butter and...
Yesterday, I was reading a German cook book and came across these unusual looking things. They are made using gnochhi dough, but fried in butter at the end. They would make wonderfully delicious little morsels. Here is a gnocchi recipe using fresh potatoes, and...
One more recipe to go for the Christmas Meal Plan, the gnocchi. But before I do that one, I wanted to have a play around with some of the possible leftovers from the festive week. There will be some pork roast leftovers, so I started with those, and a Pork, Apple...
Busy, busy day today. Had to move loads of DP’s stuff out of the way and clean up loads of grit and grime in preparation for the photographers visit. And that was before starting any of the food to be cooked and photographed. I did all the dishes for Christmas Day...
Three meals from one big pot of ragu. Shepherds pie, moussaka and a bolognese type
Not so much a recipe today, as almost a serving suggestion. I was supposed to be testing Miss South’s Scotch Broth from her book, Slow Cooked today. <br /> However, I had a lot of various minced meat in the freezer, so decided to use some minced beef...
Enjoyed one of these for my lunch today. And this time, I added a piece of preserved lemon, cut up very small. It gave an added dimension of flavour. I already like this sandwich. A lot. And with the addition of a little tangy lemon under flavour, humming away in...
This recipe uses the third, and last, portion of the ragu made earlier. The picture shows my portion, which is a quarter of the finished dish, not a half. One third of the ragu mix £1.02 400ml skimmed milk, 2.27 litres/£1, 18p 100g + 50g flour, 45p/1.5kg, 5p Total...
Oh the delights of growing tomatoes. This little lot are destined for the lunch time soup. I make tomato soup often, but only about now in the year do I make it with fresh ones. The taste is completely different, especially if I also have some fresh basil, which, today, I do.