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Lamb ragu. One third used here for shepherds pie, 74p + how to stay on budget for the day
Three meals from one big pot of ragu. Shepherds pie, moussaka and a bolognese type
Trees, bags, walls and floors
A friend and I went to a startup WI meeting last night. It was proposed that a WI was started up in Heathfield itself. Unfortunately only 5 people turned up, including my friend and I, plus 4 WI advisors. The main person organising it said that it had been well...
New ceilings and old favourites
The de-humidifier has been running, but the windows were still streaming this morning. It all takes a while to dry out. Walls next! Yesterday, SIL-to-be plastered our ceiling. Not much to look at in a picture, but another big step forward. The de-humidifier has been...
A main course soup, based on Scotch Broth. About 47p for my unreproducible version
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...
Pea soup, Approved Food order and Christmas food bank contributions
Had a simple pea soup for lunch today. I used butter in place of the veg oil for a little extra flavour. It was served with a small Sharwoods nan bread from Approved Food, one of several packets that I have in the freezer. I have been serving these as accompaniments...
20p lunch, 19p vanilla pods and extremely cheap vanilla & cinnamon extract
Had a pitta stuffed with soft cheese, carrot and lemon zest for lunch, along with a bit of leftover coleslaw from yesterday. Followed by a handful of grapes and a pear. So super healthy lunch today. I have taken to doing coleslaw dressing the Slimming World way as I...
Bread cooked in the slow cooker – who knew you could!
If I said to you I was going to bake a loaf, what would you think of? I would think of mixing flour, water, yeast and salt, giving the dough a good mix, leaving it to prove, knocking it back, shaping it, leaving for a second rise, then baking it in a hot hot oven....
Things I am going to try this week
I have just been doing my meal planning for the week and this week, I shall be trialling some recipes from Miss South's book, Slow Cooked. The book is packed with delicious sounding recipes and I'm pretty sure some of them will cost out to our budget, or can be...
I have been quiet I know for a week, but I have an excuse Miss!
Several things to report back on today. I have been quiet I know for a week, but I have an excuse Miss! There is a lot of colon cancer in my family, much of my Dad’s family dying from it, so I am monitored on a regular basis. Two years ago they found something that...
The cutest teeny tiny christmas stockings
Saw these cutest of cute little knitted mini Christmas Stockings on Elaine Colliar’s blog, Mortgage Free In Three on Monday. I made the tiny pink one, and will be making a tiny toy to go in it so that DGD can give it to her dolly. How cute is that! Then I thought I...
Fireworks, Fictitious Whiplash and Feta
More lovely family times were had this week. Both daughters, a DGD and a SIL, and myself went off to Dunorlan Park on Saturday night to watch the charity firework display held there every year. I love fireworks, the smell of the gunpowder, the crump that you feel in...
Pumpkins, crowbars and autumn leaves
Went to Sharnfold Farm on Wednesday to do some pumpkin carving and go on a Zombie walk with DD1 and DGD. Last year it was freezing cold and pouring with rain. This year it was pleasantly mild and absolutely torrentially raining. My top half was dry with my walking...