by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 20, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
Spicy Chicken Pasta Bake – Stretch A Chicken (4) Got a little bit of chicken to use up? Try it in this spicy pasta bake- make it as hot and spicy as you like! How to make Spicy Chicken Pasta Chop the onion and sauté in a little oil until soft. Add garlic,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 26, 2019 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Almond ‘Nutella’ Tart It is a dark and dank day today and I did what I often do when at a bit of a loose end, I had bit of a play in the kitchen. I made some almond ‘Nutella’ then started thinking about uses, as I do, and thought, bet it would work well in...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 27, 2018 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories
Maple Syrup, Toasted Almond & Cranberry Granola I had some using up to do today. There was a half used bottle of maple syrup that wouldn’t last much longer and I have lots of almonds that I need to use. So I thought I’d combine the two in a maple syrup and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 19, 2016 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, My Diary, Other
Can 1 sausage can make 2 sandwiches? Plus a sublime fruit and nut case paste A demonstration I did a demo on Friday of Thrifty Lesley food, for 2 hours, to a group of ladies. It was so lovely cooking and chatting, with two other women popping things in and out of the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 9, 2016 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes
Savoury flapjacks, fragrant with rosemary, caramelised onions and sweet chilli, 15p Do you have a savoury flapjacks recipe? I was on the hunt for a savoury flapjacks recipe today. I Googled, as you do, and absolutely every single recipe I found had cheese in it, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 19, 2015 | Cakes and Bakes, Christmas, Love Your Leftovers
Using up mincemeat – Mince pies, Mincemeat Muffins, Mincemeat Brownies and Mincemeat Ice Cream A few days ago, I made some mince pies for the U3A Christmas meeting. I had bought a new large jar of mincemeat, but then remembered I still had 2.5 jars of the same...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
We both had this for our lunch today. I had bought a pack of value ham for recipe testing, so now I need to use it up. I use a George Foreman grill which I’ve had for, ooh, 15 years? We’ve been in this house 8.5 years now, and I’d had it years and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 8, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast
Home made muesli, 9p Had a lovely day yesterday afternoon. The U3A budget cookery group came round and we did some puddings. We started off with Delia’s Chocolate Roulade, then Oaty Apple Crumble, Easy Cheesecakes and Chocolate Ice Cream. With a detour via making...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 27, 2014 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches
Another CFR recipe, walnut & seed butter Here is another recipe from the CFR site, a delicious nut butter. Use it on toast for breakfast, or in sandwiches for lunch, maybe with a sliced tomato, or thick coins of cucumber in it too. A smear of jam would be a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 9, 2013 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Apple and Spice Muffins, using no egg and my apples, 4p each, 9p if you buy the apples Just been having a little experiment in the kitchen. Due to budgetry constraints on our plans I have been musing about baking without eggs. I used to do it years and years ago but...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 16, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 3, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans, Puddings / Desserts
Oaty Apple Crumble, use foraged fruit and it’s even cheaper Sunday Lunch DP and I often have a Sunday lunch at, erm, lunchtime, then in the evening we have a pudding, often a fruit crumble with custard or evaporated milk. I always used to make custard using...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 6, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 2
Olive Drop Scones, Crispy Fried Onions & Carrot Ribbon Salad, 24p a pop Dinner this evening were these delicious little drop scones, accompanied by crispy fried onions and a carrot salad with a few raisins sprinkled in and spritzed with lemon juice. I only ate...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 12, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Cauliflower Leaves Pesto What do you do with your cauliflower leaves? I think they have a lot of flavour, like broccoli stalks, and tend to choose those first when we have something and veg. I usually cook them like the florets, DP has those, because he prefers them,...
