by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 26, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
Faggots and gravy What are Faggots? Faggots are a traditional British meatball made from offal, especially pork, with herbs and onions for flavouring and breadcrumbs to stretch them out. The offal is minced and is usually a combination of heart, liver and fatty pork...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
I’ve rewritten this post a bit, and taken some new pictures. Panzanella is gorgeous with very ripe, full flavoured summer tomatoes. In 2013, I tried Panzanella for the first time. I was looking through one of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s books for inspiration for...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 17, 2019 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
This is such a classic recipe, and we haven’t got one on Thrifty Lesley. Tass, a Facebook member, supplied this delicious sounding quick banana bread recipe way back in 2015. We do get through quite a lot of bananas, but in summer, they go brown and overripe...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 9, 2019 | My Diary
Thrifty Lesley It’s ages since I’ve done just a catch up post, so I thought I’d do one today. This has partly been triggered by some blogmin I’ve been doing. I’ve been blogging for over 6 years now, but haven’t really been doing all...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 23, 2019 | Bready Things, Round Up Post
All things bready, all home made. A loaf, tortilla, flatbreads, magic dough, soda bread and all kinds of other bread related things. A leavened dough can be kept in the fridge to shorten the whole process and develop flavour. Weekend Baguette Recipe Easy No-Knead...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 4, 2019 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Following on from the last post about a savoury loaf cake, I experimented today and came up with this vegan version. My silicone mini loaf tins arrived today. I said yesterday that I wouldn’t use all 12, but that’s exactly what I did do today! I’m really pleased with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 3, 2019 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Dinners, Lunches
The U3A cookery group came round today. We have such fun, exploring recipes, stirring, tasting, baking and talking about flavours, options and possibilities. Not to mention the large amount of laughter and gossiping that goes on! This month, we made Peanut Butter...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 20, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches
I haven’t made this for the longest time. It’s a recipe from my notebook that I got from Weezl, she of Cheap Family Recipes fame. I made it again this week and am enjoying it on a slice of my home made granary bread, toasted, for breakfast. Do give it a go, super...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 30, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
I have been making these rather wonderful nut balls for decades and can’t now remember where I got the original recipe from, I suspect it is a Cranks one. They are very simple to make, not requiring any complicated method, equipment or skills, although you’ll need to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 3, 2019 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
This rather wonderful sugar free chocolate, cranberry and walnut tea bread started life as an extremely simple ordinary bread loaf. This sugar free chocolate variation has been on my HUGE list of things to try for a while, and one sleepless night, I mixed it up and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 6, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
I bought 2 packs of yellow sticker pork mince recently. There was a post on the Facebook group talking about some meatballs from Waitrose which had added vegetables and pearl barley. I thought these sounded lovely, so decided to use some of the mince to experiment....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 13, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
I tried this Lentil & Nut Loaf tonight. What a little gem! Cheap, super nourishing and needing no super cookery whizzery skills to make. I found it on Pat Parkers Facebook group, posted by Emily Brown. Thanks for a great recipe. Lentil & Nut Loaf Priced at...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 27, 2017 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes
Twenty years ago, I was, and still am, a great admirer of the chef Lesley Waters. She used to make a lot of vegetarian recipes, using ordinary ingredients to make lovely tasty things. I bought two of her books way back when, including Broader Than Beans, from which...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 19, 2017 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes, Round Up Post, Sides
I often keep a bowl of bread dough in the fridge. I got the idea from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. He calls it Magic Dough because you can make so many things with it. If I think I might make a loaf sometime soon, I make a larger batch, otherwise, I just keep the bowl...
