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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 7, 2017 | All Recipes, Lunches, Things You May Never Need To Buy Again
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 version, you’ll need a food processor, stick blender or...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Things You May Never Need To Buy Again
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 more of the topics I found for the series too. I’m also going...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 22, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Sides
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 use lots of recipes from this book, including...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 14, 2017 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Sides
Mike went to the Co-Op this week and came back with one of those little magazines that supermarkets do. One of the recipes caught my eye. It used pears, but we eat our pears unripe, straight from the tree, still crispy. I thought it would work well with the apples...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 5, 2017 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Sides
Cipolline is pronounced chip-oh-LEE-nay and is a flat type of onion used in Italy for this dish. How to make Cipolline in Agrodolce (Onions in Sweet and Sour Sauce) Peel some onions, without removing the roots, or the onions will fall apart while cooking. Place in a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Other
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 numerous different ways of preserving them and haven’t liked...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
I fancied a little chocolate pudding yesterday, one of those ones that makes it own sauce. I found a recipe and set too. I’ve changed it a bit, cutting the sugar by half as it seemed too much, and it was. Old Fashioned Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding Priced at Asda...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 4, 2017 | All Recipes, Other
Sometimes, I get a bit of this and a bit of that fruit wise. There are lots of things it can be used for. I’ll use it for smoothies, or fruity, oaty crumbles, or a pie, or clafoutis, or a sweet omelette, or baked oats, or even just as it is, maybe with a splash of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 25, 2017 | Bready Things, Other
A couple of very quick things for you today. Super simple. Do you remember I bought some big bags of wonderful sun dried tomatoes from Healthy Supplies. They taste wonderfully fresh and tangy, the best I’ve had. If you can afford the initial outlay, they are a great...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 21, 2017 | Puddings / Desserts
It was the U3A AGM yesterday. We offer tea and biscuits usually, but because it was the AGM we upgraded to cakes. I decided to take some cheesecakes in ramekins. I did a strawberry topped one and this salted caramel using a recipe I’ve used before. The strawberry ones...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 24, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
I haven’t done a recipe for you for a while. I did a soup earlier this week using the juices from some boiled beef, miscellaneous veg from the fridge and some pearl barley. I looked at the container with the pearl barley in, and thought I may as well cook all...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2016 | All Recipes, Lunches, Other
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 things and I really love a great many...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 13, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Other
Another variation of pesto today – rocket, watercress, basil and sunflower seed. ingredients I’ve been tidying up out in the garden today and the rocket is one of the few things doing well this year. It is hanging over the bed in profusion, and getting in the way. So...
