by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 14, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
Barley, Mushroom & Spinach Risotto I had the cookery group round recently and we explored making risotti. We did a tomato and sausage risotto, a beetroot risotto, and this barley, mushroom and spinach risotto. Well actually, it was barley and mushroom risotto, I...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 7, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Chocolate Scones My husband was desperate for some chocolate, but we were in Covid19 lockdown, so didn’t want to go to the shops for something so frivolous. So I thought I’d bake him something chocolatey as I still had some flour. Hmm, how about some...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 4, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Apple Bread I like a banana bread, but today, I was looking at my fruit bowl and wondered if other fruit could be used in place of the bananas. How about apple bread I thought? Ooh, or spiced apple bread? How can I make apple bread healthy? To make the apple bread...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 11, 2020 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Chicken liver parfait I first came across a recipe for chicken liver pate when I was working with Weezl on what is now Cheap Family Recipes. I recently made a BBC Good Food version of chicken liver pate that had lots of ingredients. Wondering how I could frugalise it,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 21, 2019 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Anzac Biscuits I went to a friends recently and she gave me one of these Anzac biscuits. They were really good! Mike loves oaty things so I asked for the recipe and was quite surprised when they turned out to be Anzac biscuits, which I know are very similar to...
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 | Oct 14, 2016 | All Recipes, Other
Apple Curd – a huge jar for 85p, and that’s if you have to buy the apples! This Apple Curd recipe originated from the wonderful cheap family recipes. The original uses oil, but I have substituted butter as I think it works better. I have been using apples...
