by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 29, 2018 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Spiced broccoli soup is a delicious soup. Mildly spicy and creamy, a lovely cold weather lunch, filling, warming and tasty. It is exactly the same as the Spiced Parsnip Soup recipe on meal plan 4, except that I have swapped the parsnip for broccoli, and I sometimes...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 13, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
I tried this Lentil & Nut Loaf tonight. What a little gem! Cheap, super nourishing and needing no super cookery whizzery skills to make. I found it on Pat Parkers Facebook group, posted by Emily Brown. Thanks for a great recipe. Lentil & Nut Loaf Priced at...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 27, 2017 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes
Twenty years ago, I was, and still am, a great admirer of the chef Lesley Waters. She used to make a lot of vegetarian recipes, using ordinary ingredients to make lovely tasty things. I bought two of her books way back when, including Broader Than Beans, from which...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 8, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
This recipe came about when I was googling for savoury recipes to use apples. I came across one that I’ve modified here, it only uses one apple, but that’s one more used. Chicken, Quinoa and Apple Burgers Ingredients 300g chicken breast, £5.84/kg, £1.78 2 spring...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 19, 2017 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes, Round Up Post, Sides
I often keep a bowl of bread dough in the fridge. I got the idea from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. He calls it Magic Dough because you can make so many things with it. If I think I might make a loaf sometime soon, I make a larger batch, otherwise, I just keep the bowl...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 21, 2017 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
This is the recipe for the three ingredient cake I talked about recently on Facebook. It’s quite a thing around the internet although I’ve only just come across it. There are different versions here, here and here. Google ‘three ingredient cake’ to find more. I was...
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 | Jun 3, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
This is a new recipe I tried today, in our ongoing mission to have more purple portions – beetroot burgers. Packed full of veg and all the goodness that implies, and if it is of interest to you, it is vegetarian, vegan if you leave out the egg, and gluten free too...
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 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 | Nov 10, 2015 | Cakes and Bakes
I’m pretty tired right now. I’m doing the catering for the WI AGM lunch tomorrow for 40 people. Chicken casserole with mushrooms, carrots, onions and tomato, served with green beans and new potatoes. Followed by lemon pot, with fancy little biscuits and topped with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 6, 2015 | Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 10
We had these lovely herby scones at lunchtime with a bowl of tomato soup made with our tomatoes. I’ve had to wait a very long time for that soup this year, our tomatoes are scarce and only just ripening. It really is a special treat. As I have 4 x 16kg bags of malted...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 22, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Did you miss me? Goodness, where did that week go. Things have been extra manic here this last week, with every minute crammed full and no time left to blog. I’ve missed our chats and have had lots of things to write about and absolutely no time to do it. But back...
