by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 26, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Butternut Squash, Ginger & Coconut Soup – GF, NF, DF & Vegan I had a butternut squash that needed using recently and decided to make soup with it. I thought I’d flavour it with ginger and lime. But in the end I went with some fresh ginger from a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Fed up with plain cheese sandwiches? How about flavoured potted cheese? Do you have cheese sandwiches for lunch? Are you a little tired of them, or maybe wanting to ring the changes a little? How about making a potted cheese. I have lots of little bits and pieces of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 25, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
First published in February 2014, rewritten and re-priced in November 2023. This is a gorgeous, easy to make curry. On the table within 20 minutes, bursting with fruity goodness and stuffed with veggies too. As is usual, there are many options, so you can use what you...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Tomato & Almond Patè I had the cookery group round this week and we made some really tasty things. This Tomato & Almond Patè is deeply savoury and utterly delicious. It would make a great sandwich filler / toast topper / jacket potato topping. Or let it down...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Vegetable Fritters Vegetable Fritters I found this recipe book in a charity shop recently – The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook by Sarah Brown. It has some cracking recipes in it. Including this one for Spiced Vegetable Fritters. Others I’m going to try include Layered...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 14, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Sides
Something different to do as side dishes with everyday vegetables I’ve got a couple of veggie side dishes for you today. Potato and onion layer, carrot and swede mash. If you are having something quite plain as the protein element, having veggies that are a bit...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 23, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Another Trio of Vegetable Hummus – Beetroot, Parsnip and Swede Another Trio of Vegetable Hummus In the last post (goodness, how long ago was that!) I spoke about vegetable hummus inspired by Izzy Hozzack. Today, I’m going to tell you about the next three...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 22, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
A Trio of Vegetable Hummus A Trio of Vegetable Hummus The U3A cookery group met at my place on Tuesday this week. One of the many things we did was a vegetable hummus made from green peas from Izy Hossacks book, The Savvy Cook. It was utterly delicious and has...
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 | Jan 9, 2018 | All Recipes, Lunches
Today’s recipe is a lettuce soup that can use any leftover bagged salad leaves, wilting lettuce, that half a bag of fresh spinach, gluts from the garden in the summer, etc. The recipe is written by Janice Lambert, one of our lovely Facebook group members. I’ve added...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Christmas, Other
This recipe was first written in December last year after a meeting of the great U3A cookery group – we have such fun! Cookery Group We had the last U3A cookery group meeting of 2017 yesterday afternoon. Half a dozen people came and the noise level was pretty extreme!...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 10, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts, Things You May Never Need To Buy Again
Gourmet ice cream A while ago, I experimented with a tin of condensed milk and discovered that condensed milk, double cream and thick greek yogurt make easy peasy gelato. That post explains in detail how to make it, and gives many different flavour options. No...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 8, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Things You May Never Need To Buy Again
Pesto Pesto is one of the most favourite things for a rapid and tasty tea. And although it isn’t wildly expensive to buy a pot of pesto, make it at home and a whole world of inexpensive pesto’s opens up to you. I have found that a delicious pesto can be made by adding...