by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 8, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Weekend Baguette Recipe Baguette – crispy on the outside, light and fluffy on the inside, and with a lovely texture that’s chewy and delicious. Would you like a foolproof baguette recipe? And what’s more, it’s an incredible 6p per baguette. Weekend Baguette Recipe...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Panzanella with lovely sun ripened tomatoes. 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 17, 2019 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Quick Banana Bread 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 9, 2019 | My Diary
Progress on the loft and on the blog 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 the stuff...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 23, 2019 | Guest Posts
Bready Things This table is about 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. Bready...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 4, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Vegan Savoury Loaf Cake 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!...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 3, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Bacon, Olive and Cheese Loaf Cake 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 20, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches
Lentil Pate 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 30, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Lovely veggie Nut balls in a tomato sauce 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,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 3, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Sugar Free Chocolate, Cranberry and Walnut Tea Bread 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 6, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Pork meatballs with added veg and barley 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 13, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Lentil nut loaf vegan, versatile & rather delicious 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....
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 27, 2017 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Tomato & Chive Soda Bread 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 19, 2017 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Sides
Lots of different things you can make, all using Magic Dough kept in the fridge 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...
