by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 12, Meal Plan 14, Meal Plan 2, Meal Plan 9
Post originally published October 2013, refreshed and updated November 2021 These little biscuits are fun to make, especially if you make tiny hearts or teeny squares. Spice them up with cinnamon or mixed spice at Christmas time. Or see the variations for masses of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 21, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 2
First written in August 2013, refreshed and updated in November 2021. I wanted to try a couscous salad that I have been doing for a while and see if I could get it sub 50p. Well, it worked out at 71p for the dish in the picture, and there is plenty there for two, so...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 24, 2021 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2, Meal Plan 4
This post was first written in October 2013. Re-written and refreshedin September 2021. If you take 250g flour, some yeast and water, you can add many, many different things to it and get a lovely loaf, with 4 portions, to use for any meal, as an anytime snack or...
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 11, 2016 | Dinners, Lunches
going through my cook books I have been looking through a few of my (far too many really! ) cook books recently. I do this every now and again, and note down any recipes I like the look of. One of the books I looked through was The Vegetable Bible by Sophie...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2015 | Dinners
A friend left on Monday for a month long cruise round Canada, lucky her! I keep an eye on the house for her while she is away (she is very generous and has already given me a massive golden chrysanthemum, and always brings me back edible goodies from wherever she...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 12
Oh the delights of growing tomatoes. This little lot are destined for the lunch time soup. I make tomato soup often, but only about now in the year do I make it with fresh ones. The taste is completely different, especially if I also have some fresh basil, which,...
by admin | Jul 18, 2014 | Dinners
Here is the recipe for the risotto we had yesterday. I halved a recipe that was supposed to serve 5-6 as a starter, but half would actually easily serve 4 as a main I found the recipe in the Guardian. 200g broad beans, Asda frozen ones are £1/750g, or a tin 55p,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 9, 2013 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Meal Plan 12
Just been having a little experiment in the kitchen. Due to budgetry constraints on our plans I have been musing about baking without eggs. I used to do it years and years ago but had completely forgotten what I did, except that it involved a little vinegar. On...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 9, 2013 | All Recipes, Other
Piccallili – around 84p a jar I made some Piccallili this week. I made some last year and found that the men in particular amongst my aquaintance liked it, and it was received with pleasure as a hostess gift too. So as it is coming up to that time of year when...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 6, 2013 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3
I have a very long list of recipes to try, price and post and one of those recipes was gnocchi. Miss South over on northsouthfood.com posted a recipe for just that, but using instant mashed potato. I was very surprised by that to say the least, I associate dried mash...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 6, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 2
Dinner this evening were these delicious little olive drop scones, accompanied by crispy fried onions and a carrot and raisin salad, that has a few raisins sprinkled in and spritzed with lemon juice. I created this recipe using what is available in Meal Plan 2 and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 5, 2013 | All Recipes, My Diary
An abundance of Courgettes This is the courgette harvest today :o, I only have 2 plants, but they are like firecrackers at the moment, throwing off courgettes that would turn to marrows as soon as I turn my back. Managed to catch them all at the small and tender...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 27, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
An experiment yesterday with a recipe I cooked all last summer from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s book Three Good Things. . He slow cooks courgettes in olive oil and garlic, then mixes them with mozzarella and pasta, tops them with parmesan and bakes them in the oven....
