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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.
Pottering in the kitchen and finding uses for plums
Pottering in the kitchen, one of my favourite activities, while I find uses for all those lovely plums
Plums, plums and more plums
Lots and lots of plums from our little trees. Need to find ways of using them now!
Vegetable Stir Fry, 51p a serving
This was supper last night. Haven’t had stir fry for a while, and saw some bean sprouts in Sainsbury’s, so that’s what we had. If you like stir fries and have them fairly often, it is really worth getting a little bottle of sesame oil. You may even have some already....
The first of the plum harvest
These are the first of the plums that I harvested today. We planted some Minarette trees out the front. A dozen trees in a tiny space, of assorted fruit, not much more than 2 feet apart. This is the first plum harvest, and I am really excited about it. The plum trees...
500g packs of Aduki Beans from Approved Foods for 20p!
Had my very first Approved Foods at a bargainous price. I'd never really fancied what they did before, there seemed to be too many cakes, chocolates and biscuits. Not that there is anything wrong with those, in moderation. It's the moderation bit I struggle with, if...
Ginger Toast with Banana for breakfast today
Breakfast today was a variation of the Cinnamon Toast. Two slices of toast with ground ginger, oil and a sprinkle of sugar, stuck together with a mashed banana. Delicious! 2 slices of bread Half a tsp of veg oil on each side of each slice A good sprinkle of ground...
Croutons
Croutons are incredibly useful little things. They can shoosh up many a dish.
Cinnamon Toast for breakfast, 4p a slice
Breakfast this morning, frugalised Cinnamon Toast. Super quick and easy, and vegan too.