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 | Jan 27, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
This is the pasta dish I spoke about last time. Its seriously good and with a little tweaking it comes in at an acceptable price for this blog. Spinach & Ricotta Pasta Priced at Asda using mySupermarket.com in January 2019 85g frozen spinach, £1.69/1.3kg, 11p 35g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 1, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners
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, although there are...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 30, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners
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? Paneer Curry Priced at Asda using mySupermarket 250g home made...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 24, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
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 spices. This time round, they also sent a recipe for...
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 4, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Other
I really fancied something made with a lemon from the fridge and lots of mint from the garden today. But the mint is straggly and chewed. An alternative would have been lemon balm, but that was even worse, every single leaf had multiple holes. So I cut both of those...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 26, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 14
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 first time, I had just potatoes in the usual...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 13, 2016 | Breakfast, Meal Plan 14, Round Up Post
I am a new convert to overnight oats, and I’m loving them. These are wonderful if you are time stretched. You can make up dishes ready to be topped, or a big bowl that can be used over several days, or directly in little pots ready to be topped and carried off...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 16, 2016 | Breakfast, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 12
I have been fancying for a while having a go at making sausages, and this week, I did just that. I was in Sainsburys and thought I’d get some pork to make some. I picked up a shoulder joint that had been reduced and looked at the back of the pack and it said that...
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 | May 17, 2016 | All Recipes, Lunches, My Diary
We had a guest last night and had a roast chicken. I picked all the rest of the meat off this morning and the carcass is simmering as we speak. I did some roast cauliflower and carrots to go with the chicken. The veg were drizzled with oil and sprinkled with tandoori...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 5, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 14
The budget cookery group for the U3A were here Tuesday afternoon and one of the things we made was fish cakes. We did one version using a tin of sardines in tomato sauce, and another using a tin of tuna canned in oil. Sardines in Tomato Sauce Fish Cakes Tin of...
