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Even more plums, a few apples and yukky fingers
I harvested another 10kg of Victoria plums yesterday, 1.7kg of Discovery apples. Plus 3.3kg of wasp ruined, spotty Scrumptious apples from the back garden. These were, by a long way, the best apples last year. They’re not very good this year! The 2 plums on the top of the basket are the entire harvest from a plum tree in the back garden, bit of a contrast with those in the front!
Cheap lentils, slightly cheaper chorizo, and practically free silky hands
A couple of small things today. First of all, we were working in Northfleet again today. There is a big Morrisons there and I popped in as I know they have big bags of lentils. So I got a huge 5kg bag of red lentils at 10p per 100g, which is half the cost I usually...
Meatless Sunday Lunch
I accidentally had a Sunday lunch without the meat when I was a child. My parents didn’t miss it, no-one else noticed – would you?
Pizza, 32cm, chorizo and roasted vegetable
Oh my goodness, this was SO good. Soft roasted vegetables, spicy paprika chorizo, smooth tomato sauce, crispy thin pizza base. Yum YUM This mixture made two 32cm pizzas, you could make both and have one the next day, or freeze one, ready made up to pop in the oven. 1...
Chorizo, chickpea and tomato in a flatbread, 47p a serving
Chorizo, chickpeas and tomato in a HM flatbread, nomnom
Flatbreads, less than 2p each. Versatile and very yummy
Try these with garlic butter on, extraordinarily good, and like yorkshire puddings, a great, cheap filler, before a main event
Lemony Water, 0p
On impulse, with my hand on the way to the compost bucket, I paused and dropped a zested and squeezed half lemon into the glass of water I had been drinking and left it there for a couple of hours to see if there was any flavour left in the lemon shell.
Pancakes filled with Carrots, Onions and Peas in Soft Cheese
A pair of pancakes stuffed with sauted vegetables and bound together with creamy soft cheese – delicious.
Olive Drop Scones, Crispy Fried Onions & Carrot Ribbon Salad
Delicious little olive drop scones, with crisply fried onions, a carrot salad with a few raisins sprinkled in and spritzed with lemon juice.
Filled Pitta Breads, with Carrot, Lemon & Soft Cheese
A pitta bread filled with a mixture of grated carrot, lemon zest and juice and soft cheese. It is very tasty and would work without the lemon if you don’t have any. But it really does make a big difference to the flavour, especially the zest.
Jamie Oliver’s new programme and effing great tellys
Is a telly chef’s idea of a budget meal the same as ours?
Plum Jam, 18p a jar if you have foraged fruit
Some people can forage plums, but I’ve never been lucky enough to see a tree to forage from. I used plums from our little trees to make 5 jars of delicious jam. You can use some cooking apples in with the plums if you don’t have many. Cooking apples have a good amount of pectin which is the thing that makes jam set. If you can get some un-ripe plums mixed in with your fruit, they have more pectin too.