by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 2, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, My Diary
Something old and something new. A lovely pie and a leftovers pudding Vegan Green Lentil,White Cabbage & Onion Pie Something old and something new today. I fancied a pie today, so I did us a green lentil, white cabbage and onion one, seasoned with sweet chilli...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 26, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners
Mixed vegetable dauphinoise for dinner, 47p I had this mixed vegetable dauphinoise for lunch yesterday and dinner today. I have only recently had dauphinoise at home for the first time, and I tried it because of the high fat diet I’m on – seemed to be a good fit The...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 8, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Lentil flour and the simplest bread I’ve ever made 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2016 | All Recipes, Other
60% fat and vanilla extract First day of my new workouts today. I thought if I started the week on a Sunday, I might even get to do those five sessions that my coach asked. It was very intense, very hard work, and took 2.5 hours, and I felt amazing afterwards. Weight...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 21, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Mixed veg Dahl that turned into Dahl soup Had an experiment that turned out lovely today. I intended to make a Dahl, but it ended up as Dahl soup because I added too much water. There were the stalks and stems from an entire cauliflower in the fridge, and I thought it...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 11, 2015 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Bed time ice cream? Dinner with friends and family last night was lovely, of course! Lots of chat and laughter. Got home very late and slept only fitfully, so am pretty tired today. It seems to be that if I miss what my system considers to be my sleeping ‘slot’, it...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 6, 2015 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Picked lots and lots of raspberries and loganberries from the canes in the garden this afternoon, they’re doing really well. Lots more to come yet. So, you know what I’m going to say now don’t you! Yes, I made some raspberry ice cream! It thickened up so nicely in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Although I have four extremely large tins of mandarins, I opened a much smaller one yesterday to try mandarin flavour ice cream. I had the second pot of double cream to use, but no more yogort. So I thought I’d try it with just cream to see what the difference was....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 23, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Arrgh, the pictures simply won’t size properly, it’s driving me nuts! Doing some gardening today, I pulled up a self sown Pink Fir Apple potato that was in the way of the spinach and it had several little potatoes on, so I had those with my lunch. They were really...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 26, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Salsa di noci, or walnut sauce, originates from the Italian region, Liguria. It is made using walnuts and olive oil from the region, along with garlic, butter and cream, and finished with the specialty hard cheese Parmigiano-Reggiano or Grana Padano. Traditionally,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 15, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Puddings / Desserts
An outstanding chocolate roulade A few friends are coming to dinner tomorrow, so this evening, I am making a pudding. Delia Smith’s Chocolate Squidgy Log, something I’ve made lots and lots of times. This is another recipe from Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 16, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Dinners, Lunches
Christmas Meal Plan – HM pasta, cream, mixed veg, mustard 30p I had this for lunch today, from the Christmas 2014 Meal Plan. Serves 2 160g flour, value, 1.5kg/45p, 5p200g frozen mixed veg, Asda 1kg/77p. 15p120g frozen parsnips, Asda Chosen By You 680g pk/91p,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 9, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Dinners, Lunches
Christmas Meal Plan – Roast Pork Lunch, 84p This is the lunch for Christmas Day itself from the Christmas Meal Plan. 1.6kg Asda Butchers Selection British Pork Shoulder joint, £4.61, 300g, 86pStuffing, Asda Smartprice 85g/15p, half the pack, 7p500g Potatoes,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 2, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Puddings / Desserts
Muscovado and mixed fruit pudding, with double cream, 32p This is the pudding for the Christmas week 2014 plan. Plump dried fruits, rich muscovado flavours, double cream trickled over. Very naughty at 600+ calories, and very, very nice. I tested one with DP this...
