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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...
Crumpets and pikelets, savoury and sweet
A little experiment today with the fridge dwelling Magic Dough. I thought I could almost certainly make crumpets with it. So I put a little in a bowl and beat in some water, so it looked like a Yorkshire pudding batter, greased some rings and poured a little batter...
Percy Pumpkin Soup, version 2, 15p a portion, and top quality singing for the price of an internet connection
A variation on Percy Pumpkin soup today. We don’t really ‘do’ Halloween, so after the fun of yesterday, Percy was roasted off in the oven this morning, peeled and turned into soup. Forgot to weigh him, but he was a small one. I used 200g red lentils, twice as much...
Smoked mackerel & creamy soft cheese on granary toast, 63p. Plus, how to stay on budget for the day
The simplest of simple breakfasts this morning. I got some yellow stickered smoked mackerel this week. So this morning I toasted a slice of granary bread, slathered on some soft cheese and flaked half a mackerel fillet on top. Simples! Slice toast, a 22 slice 75p...
Home made herby chicken goujons, mash and peas, 97p. Plus how to stay on budget for the day
We had these home made chicken goujons this evening. I used 250g chicken, half of a pack. But there was plenty, and a third of a pack would have been fine, so that is what I have priced it at. It works out 92p for the meal per person, which is more than we usually do...