by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners, Lunches, Other
Yesterday, I was reading a German cook book and came across these unusual looking things. They are made using gnochhi dough, but fried in butter at the end. They would make wonderfully delicious little morsels. Here is a gnocchi recipe using fresh potatoes, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 4, 2015 | Other, Round Up Post
I made this today. Had a pack of cranberries in the fridge and I love a good curd, so decided to make a cranberry curd with them. I looked at various recipes on the net. Many used cranberry juice, many used lots of ingredients. So in the end I opted for a Delia Smith...
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 19, 2014 | Breakfast, Lunches
The simplest of simple breakfasts this morning. I got some yellow stickered smoked mackerel this week. So this morning I toasted a slice of granary bread, slathered on some soft cheese and flaked half a mackerel fillet on top. Simples! Slice toast, a 22 slice 75p...
by admin | Jul 13, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Inspired by yesterday’s salady success, I had another one today. This one was 80g dried butter beans, soaked and cooked, Asda Great Scott 375g/£1.18, 25p I think this is the equivalent of a tin? Some lettuce and rocket from the garden Half a red pepper, very finely...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 10, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Tried a variation of the Chickpea, Mango and Coconut Curry today. Made the sauce as usual, then added some green beans from the freezer. And then instead of rice, nan, or anything else like that, I stirred it through pasta. And popped some little bits of feta on top....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
We had an oldie but goodie for tea this evening. Thai green curry. I used a mix of carrots, a red and green pepper, Savoy cabbage, tomatoes and an onion. The protein part was paneer, and we had it with brown basmati. I tried costing it, but it came out to 98p, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Did some lovely muffins this afternoon. Mike kept looking hopefully in the tin and saying he wanted some biscuits. So I had a look in the cupboard to see what we have….lots! I have had two packets of coconut powder in there for a while, which is why we ended up with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 4, 2014 | All Recipes, Dieting, Dinners, Lunches
There has been a lot going on in the kitchen today. Remember all those plums I had earlier in the year? I got a pot of them out of the freezer and cooked them up with a tsp of mixed spice and had them for breakfast with 25g porridge. Then lunchtime I had a soup. In...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Here is another dahl recipe, a coconutty one this time. I like to use brown basmati rice with most things, if you wanted to use value rice, it would reduce the cost to just 17p a portion. This is a very quick meal, from packet to table in 20 minutes, and most of that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 26, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
I have had this a few times, I have a clipping in my little brown book from where I cut it out from somewhere. It is extremely tasty and amazingly quick, you need to prepare the nan in advance, otherwise it just takes a few minutes. Toasted Nan & Dahl tblsp medium...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 28, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
I tried these several years ago as my brother is coeliac and these, if you use the gram flour option, are gluten free. They are easy to make, freeze well and taste delicious. This recipe serves 4 adults. Great for kids as it’s easy to portion, they can just have...
