for fabulously frugal food
This tasty salad is made using brown rice for fibre, that’s been cooked in chicken stock, for extra flavour. Quick and easy to make, you don’t need to put the oven on when its baking hot and you just want some dinner.
Filling from the brown rice and those lovely vegetables, it’s less than 400 calories too! Inexpensive too to help those purses and wallets.
This gorgeous crumble has a nutty, seedy, oaty topping and a creamy, chicken and mushroom base. It will freeze very well, either cooked or uncooked. Lovely to have a home made ready meal in the freezer that just needs to be defrosted.
This is a very simple dish, cooked on the hob, in a single pan. Just aubergine, tomatoes and olive oil, simmered slowly to an unctuous silkiness. Absolutely gorgeous just on its own, hot or room temperature. Stir through pasta, top a jacket potato or use as part of a mezze.
This easy swede mash can be used a side or a main course. Make it vegan by using a vegan cream. Swede mash is a common side dish, but this has fresh ginger, generous nutmeg and chilli to add extra flavour and a touch of creaminess.
It tastes really good and may even convert small (or large!) veggie phobes!
Easy to make, wild garlic pesto is pungent, delicious and made from wild garlic foraged from the woods, or Allium triquetrum which is what I have growing in my garden.
Here’s how I made 4 meals for 2 from 1 x 200g pack of smoked mackerel fillets
A mixed vegetable quiche using everyday veggies with lots of possible variations
This spicy carrot and lentil soup uses chicken stock made when processing a roast chicken carcass. The stock brings a great deal of flavour to the soup.
This recipe is from a series showing how 1 medium chicken can be used to make 7 different frugal chicken recipes and feed your family for a week!
Chicken pizza, with onions and peppers – one of a series of recipes to make one chicken last a family a whole week
A delicious tart made with chicken, onion and sweetcorn. Part of a series to see how many many portions I could get from 1 chicken
Chicken and vegetable risotto made from leftover roasted chicken, red pepper, and pak choi. Made without wine