by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 29, 2017 | All Recipes, Lunches
I posted a little while ago about the recipes we cooked at the last U3A cooking group, including a gorgeous Pad Thai, and this creamy leek and cheese toasty. I was sure I had also posted the recipe for the toasty, but apparently not! So here it is. Creamy Leek And...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 3, 2016 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes
Tried something a little different today. I have a huge bag of stuffing mix from Approved Foods that isn’t being used up very quickly, so I am thinking about how I can use more of it. I wondered what it would be like used as part of the mix when making bread rolls. I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 27, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Walking The walking is going really well lately. Have upped the target to 12,000 steps a day after our Swiss holiday. Still not managing it every day, but more and more days, I do. We walked from The Beachy Head pub to the lighthouse this Sunday, that was almost...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 30, 2016 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes
I spoke about a loaf in the oven yesterday. I still have LOTS of flour left from when I over ordered rather from Approved Foods. I have not been having that many flour based things lately so I thought I’d see if I could make a sparkling water loaf using some of it, so...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 17, 2016 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes, Other
Made the carrot soup for Mike’s lunch today (I’m back on the diet and had something different), and some tomato flavoured rolls to go with it using the sparkling water loaf recipe from a few days ago. This time I used the same ingredients as for the stripped back loaf...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 8, 2016 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes
I was looking round the Internet last week, as you do, and came across lentil flour. What’s that, thought I, sounds intriguing. I started off with lentil flour and ended up with a loaf made with fizzy water! What I hear you say? That’s what I thought too....
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 29, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Did one of my very favourite things today and had a play in the kitchen and ended up with these pea-crumb fritters. Have been thinking about doing some kind of frittery thing using mushy peas for a while now. Had a little Google and a look around t’internet....
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 23, 2016 | Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes
Chapatti To make a batch of chapatti, I used the recipe from the back of the sack of flour. Mix 300g of chapatti or wholemeal flour with enough cold water to make a stiff dough. They didn’t say to add any salt, so I didn’t. Knead for 3 or 4 minutes, place...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 7, 2016 | Breakfast, Lunches
I’ve had mushrooms on toast for breakfast a couple of times recently. But it’s really filling and I think it would also make a great lunch or simple supper dish. Perfect for one. Very quick and super simple. Only 220 calories, but keeps me going until lunch, may be...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 24, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches, My Diary
low carb soup Still on my quest for nice things to eat on this high fat, now even more low carb, diet my coach has put me on, I thought I’d do some soup. I love soup and have it often. It suddenly occurred to me today that if I didn’t put in my usual scoop...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 7, 2015 | Lunches
Tried the first experiment with reviving dead bread stored as breadcrumbs today. Had a look in the fridge and found a few bits and pieces that I thought would work, got a bag of breadcrumbs out of the freezer and had a play. I have set out below what I used to give...
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 | Nov 19, 2015 | Bready Things, Dinners, Love Your Leftovers, Lunches, Round Up Post
Went to a U3A meeting this morning on Science. One of our number talked about Astronomy. We discussed the immense distances involved and moved on to the possibility of life elsewhere. The presenter is a chemist, so we had a very interesting discussion around why...
