by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 6, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Productive day today. Had a rummage in the loft for Reverse Advent, made a loaf, some soup and an apple cake. So going today are; a surplus masala tin; several more cardboard boxes that held appliances that won’t need the box any more; an old sewing project that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 3, 2015 | Love Your Leftovers
I was interested in this post yesterday from Hugh’s War on Waste. He says, and I’ve read similar things before from eg WRAP, that the top five most wasted food items are bread, milk, potatoes, cheese and apples (and soft drinks, but I can’t really get worked up about...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 15, 2015 | Other
Today’s recipe is from a reader, Tass Smith. Tass generously offered her chutney recipe when I said just how many apples I had picked from our little Fiesta Tree and was wondering what to do with them all. This recipe came from my late Grandma’s good friend,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 11, 2015 | Puddings / Desserts
Dinner with friends and family last night was lovely, of course! Lots of chat and laughter. Got home very late and slept only fitfully, so am pretty tired today. It seems to be that if I miss what my system considers to be my sleeping ‘slot’, it gets all out of kilter...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2015 | Dinners
A friend left on Monday for a month long cruise round Canada, lucky her! I keep an eye on the house for her while she is away (she is very generous and has already given me a massive golden chrysanthemum, and always brings me back edible goodies from wherever she...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 9, 2015 | Breakfast, Recipes Using No Power
This lovely Bircher muesli is from Rose Elliot’s book, Vegetarian Cookery, which I’ve had for ever. I use lots of recipes from it and it was one of my standby books when we were both vegetarian. The muesli is wonderfully delicious. Rose recommends having it with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 8, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast
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 garlicky Boursin using...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 23, 2015 | Dinners
Arrgh, the pictures simply won’t size properly, it’s driving me nuts! Doing some gardening today, I pulled up a self sown Pink Fir Apple potato that was in the way of the spinach and it had several little potatoes on, so I had those with my lunch. They were really...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2015 | Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 4
This was lunch today, after a vigorous gym session. It didn’t take long to prepare, although I did have a big dish of butter beans, already cooked, in the fridge. It was filling, even tho it was less than 300 calories, and 3 hours later, I am not in the least bit...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 18, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Dinners, Love Your Leftovers, Meal Plan 12
One more recipe to go for the Christmas Meal Plan, the gnocchi. But before I do that one, I wanted to have a play around with some of the possible leftovers from the festive week. There will be some pork roast leftovers, so I started with those, and a Pork, Apple...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 19, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 17, 2014 | My Diary
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 27, 2014 | Bready Things, Dinners, Lunches
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 25, 2014 | Less than 500 calories, Lunches
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...
