by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 19, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
Lentil ragu with spaghetti Lentil ragu with spaghetti Made something really good this evening inspired by a recipe from this book. I’ve tweaked it a bit, as you do, so this is my version of it. First printed in 1994 and still in print and extremely cheap from Amazon....
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 29, 2018 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Spiced Broccoli Soup. Delicious with tomato scone or herb bread 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 3, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners
Spaghetti Carbonara – 41p a portion This post was last revisited, repriced and updated in April 2018 Inspired by the Great British Budget Menu, I thought I would have a look at the Carbonara sauce recipe I use and see how much it costs. One of my favourite...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 7, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
Savory vegetarian pie recipes are always popular and this version is one we made in my cookery group. This is not only a vegetarian recipe but just happens to be a vegan vegetable pie too. I found the recipe in Delicious, but have changed it a bit. Very flexible and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 7, 2017 | All Recipes, Lunches, Things You May Never Need To Make Again
Things You May Never Need To Buy Again – Hummus Here is the 2nd in the series of Things You May Never Need To Make Again. The increasingly popular – hummus Hummus Once you’ve made hummus at home, will you ever want the bought version again? For the smoothest...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Things You May Never Need To Make Again
Things You May Never Need To Buy Again – Pasta Sauce I started this series of Things You May Never Need To Buy Again ages ago, here, here and here, but I’ve decided that no one will be able to find them. So I’m redoing them as separate posts and will do lots...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 22, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Sides
Gajar Matar. Everyday vegetables wearing a sari Many, many years after getting the recipe for the Sweet Bean Curry from my lovely friend, I got this recipe from much the same place. His partner was making this recipe using a book I soon bought, The Food Of India. I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 8, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
Chicken, Quinoa and Apple Burgers 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Other
Got too many runner beans? This lovely pesto will use up loads! If you grow runner beans, you may well have times, like me, when you are a bit overwhelmed with them and don’t know what else to do with them. Personally, I think home frozen runners are vile. I’ve tried...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 1, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners
A gorgeous home made Pad Thai I run a cooking group for the local U3A that meets once a month, and this months meeting was today. We made plain chow mein, a creamy leek cheese toast topper and this wonderful Pad Thai. It works out rather expensive for our budget here,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 30, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners
Paneer curry, using lovely home made paneer. 34p each and Yummy! Today, we’re talking what to do with that lovely homemade paneer, well, one thing anyway! A delicious paneer curry. I really like this and make it often, usually with shop bought paneer. Maybe not again?...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 24, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
A delicious Sag Aloo that really hits the spot. I’ve been looking at various recipes for sag aloo for a while now. None of them seemed to give me the result I was after. Every now and then, Spices of India send me an email wanting me to buy their pretty expensive...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2016 | All Recipes, Lunches, Other
I found a delicious new taste today I found a delicious new taste today I am rather a big fan of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Whenever he brings out a new book, I invariably buy it. Not that I need much of an excuse to buy a cook book. I love Hugh’s approach to most...
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...
