by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 20, 2022 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
You don’t need to make an egg custard and you don’t need an ice cream maker to make no churn chocolate ice cream. There isn’t a trace of an ice crystal crunch either. If you leave it to get fully frozen, take it out at least half an hour before you want to eat it and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2021 | All Recipes, Meal Plan 1, Meal Plan 14, Puddings / Desserts
This post was first written in June 2013 and updated in June 2021. Are you following Meal Plan 1? All the recipes in meal plan 1 If so, this baked sponge can be eaten at any time during the week when you need the calories. Would be lovely as a Sunday tea, or maybe...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 11, 2015 | Puddings / Desserts
Dinner with friends and family last night was lovely, of course! Lots of chat and laughter. Got home very late and slept only fitfully, so am pretty tired today. It seems to be that if I miss what my system considers to be my sleeping ‘slot’, it gets all out of kilter...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 8, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast
Had a lovely day yesterday afternoon. The U3A budget cookery group came round and we did some puddings. We started off with Delia’s Chocolate Roulade, then Oaty Apple Crumble, Easy Cheesecakes and Chocolate Ice Cream. With a detour via making garlicky Boursin using...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 6, 2015 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Picked lots and lots of raspberries and loganberries from the canes in the garden this afternoon, they’re doing really well. Lots more to come yet. So, you know what I’m going to say now don’t you! Yes, I made some raspberry ice cream! It thickened up so nicely in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Although I have four extremely large tins of mandarins, I opened a much smaller one yesterday to try mandarin flavour ice cream. I had the second pot of double cream to use, but no more yogort. So I thought I’d try it with just cream to see what the difference was....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 15, 2015 | Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Puddings / Desserts
A few friends are coming to dinner tomorrow, so this evening, I am making a pudding. Delia Smith’s Chocolate Squidgy Log, something I’ve made lots and lots of times. This is another recipe from Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course This is a quality pudding, that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 2, 2014 | Christmas, Puddings / Desserts
This is the pudding for the Christmas week 2014 plan. Plump dried fruits, rich muscovado flavours, double cream trickled over. Very naughty at 600+ calories, and very, very nice. I tested one with DP this evening, we shared, as calorific treats like this slip down...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 13, 2014 | Cakes and Bakes
The lunching lady theme continued right through last week, right up to yesterday! I have been out for seven days on the trot, I can’t tell you just how much I need to catch up on. I was going to say I have a much less sociable diary this week until I glanced at it....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 13, 2014 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Remember this? Instant semi-freddo After dinner this evening, DP announced that he wanted a pudding. He was angling after a crumble, but I really didn’t want to make one. So I dug out a bag of mixed berries from the freezer, picked out all the strawberries and whizzed...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 4, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2, Meal Plan 4
Are you doing pancakes this week? They are usually made with eggs, milk and flour, but have you tried them made with just flour and water? Doesn’t sound all that appealing does it. But I couldn’t tell the difference between my usual ones, made with eggs and milk, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
I have 3 under counter sized fridges, 2 of which are supposed to be overflow ones, and not turned on most of the time. Such is my lack of discipline, that until recently all 3 of them were packed to bursting. I have now managed to reduce the third one down to a third...
