This lovely and very easy to make pie is very flexible and very delicious, doesn’t take very long, freezes well and is vegan too.
Vegetable and hummus pie
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Things You May Never Need To Buy Again – Fish Cakes
Fish cakes are basically a bit of fish and some mashed potato, so are easily reproduced at home. They can be plain and simple, or have many different flavour additions.
Things You May Never Need To Buy Again – Pesto
Pesto is one of the most favourite things for a rapid and tasty tea. And although it isn’t wildly expensive to buy a pot of pesto, make it at home and a whole world of inexpensive pesto’s opens up to you.
Things You May Never Need To Buy Again – Pasta Sauce
A basic pasta sauce is extremely easy to make.
Gajar Matar. Everyday vegetables wearing a sari
I love this. Such everyday vegetables transformed by a few spices. Goes with many things, can be used as a side dish or a main. Freezes really well
Something I’ve been making for decades – Sweet Bean Curry
I have been making this vegan curry for decades. First came across it a friends house and wheedled the recipe
Bean and Quinoa, Lemon and Herb Salad
I had been looking through Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty More for inspiration and found this lovely salad. This is my version of it – you can vary it a lot
Chicken, Quinoa and Apple Burgers
This recipe came about when I was googling for savoury recipes to use apples. I came across one that I’ve modified here, it only uses one apple, but that’s one more used. Chicken, Quinoa and Apple Burgers Ingredients 300g chicken breast, £5.84/kg, £1.78 2 spring...
Stuffed potato cakes
The U3A cookery group came round today. We did 3 recipes this time, including this one, stuffed potato cake. 2 potato cakes is the recommended portion size. It isn't many calories, but 2 really is enough The recipe uses a potato dough and it has spiced vegetables...
Chicken and leek crumble
We had a roast chicken on Friday, so I had lots of lovely leftovers to do something with. This is the first thing I did, a lovely buttery leek base, along with the chicken, in a white sauce, and topped with an oaty savoury crumble with a hint of stuffing. The topping...
Barley Salad, 59p. Versatile, delicious and very easy to make
Everything in this could be varied, dependent on what you have, what you like and who you are feeding.
Creamy Walnut pasta sauce – LCHF if you want it to be
I absolutely love the walnut butter I first tried making recently, either honey smoked, as in the original, or plain. Convinced it would make a lovely pasta sauce, I had a little play.