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Christmas Meal Plan – HM pasta, cream, mixed veg, mustard 30p
I had this for lunch today, from the Christmas 2014 Meal Plan. Serves 2 160g flour, value, 1.5kg/45p, 5p 200g frozen mixed veg, Asda 1kg/77p. 15p 120g frozen parsnips, Asda Chosen By You 680g pk/91p, 16p 100ml double cream, Asda Fresh cream 300ml/85p, 23p tsp mustard,...
Christmas Meal Plan – super simple mixed veg soup, with fresh crusty roll, 18p
A really super simple soup, barely any cooking involved!
Christmas Meal Plan – Parsnip Soup, Scone & Mince Pie, 37p
This Christmas Meal Plan parsnip soup could scarcely be easier. Serves 2 240g parsnips, Asda Chosen By You, 680g pk/91p, 32p 750ml boiling water Total of 32p Put the parsnips and boiling water in a pan and simmer gently for about 15 minutes, until the parsnips are...
Christmas Meal Plan – Roast Pork Lunch, 84p
This is the lunch for Christmas Day itself from the Christmas Meal Plan. 1.6kg Asda Butchers Selection British Pork Shoulder joint, £4.61, 300g, 86p Stuffing, Asda Smartprice 85g/15p, half the pack, 7p 500g Potatoes, Asda white potatoes, 2.5kg/£1.69, 34p 200g...
Christmas Meal Plan – Stilton Jackets with Clementines & Yogort for pudding, 73p each
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...
Kitchens, Christmas Menu and avoiding debt
The kitchen is coming along beautifully. Most of the floor is down now and I hope to get the tree up in the next few days. We moved the table out there today and had our first meal on it. I didn’t remember to take a picture of that until it was too gloomy! The...
Muscovado and mixed fruit pudding, with double cream, 32p
This is the pudding for the Christmas week 2014 plan. Plump dried fruits, rich muscovado flavours, double cream trickled over. Very naughty at 600+ calories, and very, very nice. I tested one with DP this evening, we shared, as calorific treats like this slip down...
Easy Moussaka Recipe
Using the lamb ragu that was made yesterday, today I made a moussaka. Moussaka might seem like a complicated recipe if you haven't made it before, but it's just a lamb ragu with grilled aubergine slices on top, and those topped with a custard mix that's just been...
A big pot of lamb ragu to make 3 dinners
Three meals from one big pot of ragu. Shepherds pie, moussaka and a pasta dish
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...