by admin | Jul 17, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Sports day and risotto Phew, what a scorcher! Went to Eastbourne today to see my grand daughter’s sports day. The race she was dreading the most was the balance a bean bag on the head one. But because she hated it, she had practised it a lot and only won it! Her mum...
by admin | Jul 6, 2014 | My Diary
Using up stale focaccia at breakfast, cherries, lovely ripe cherries, and a pot wot I painted Following on from yesterdays post about bread, I dug out some focaccia from the freezer, made on the course. It was the broad bean and blue cheese one. In a frying pan, I put...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 27, 2014 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Coffee semi-freddo, 26p each, and a chocolate version, 37p Remember this semi-freddo? I was making a cup of coffee earlier and thought, ooh, I fancy some coffee frozen yogort. So I mixed together250g value Greek yogurt, Aldi 85p/500g, 42p5g instant coffee granules,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 21, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches, My Diary
A Salmon pasta lunch and other things I had Smoked Salmon pasta for lunch today, with a slight variation in the sauce. I sauted the onion, boiled the pasta, adding a handful of green beans towards the end of the cooking time. Then I just mixed everything together,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 18, 2014 | My Diary
Bread, bread and more bread I have lots of lovely pictures to show you, but they simply won’t load today. The broadband speed is appalling this evening and everything is taking for ever. So I’ll post this and get the pictures in when I can. Shame about the piccies...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 13, 2014 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
A reprise on semi-freddo, and lots more flavour ideas Archives Archives 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 10, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Mango, coconut and feta pasta Archives Archives Tried a variation of the Chickpea, Mango and Coconut Curry today.Made the sauce as usual, then added some green beans from the freezer. And then instead of rice, nan, or anything else like that, I stirred it through...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 15, 2014 | My Diary
A mountainous larder, raspberries, pasta and crispy fish burger Yet another pancake variation this morning. After the WI lunch yesterday, I had some raspberries left over. So this morning, I used self raising flour as usual, but instead of water, I used raspberries....
by Thrifty Lesley | May 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Meal Plans
Week Five Meal Planner – Brie, Chicken and Eggs Week Five Meal Planner – Brie, Chicken and Eggs Something a bit different this time. This plan is an extended version (2 more days added) of a Live Below the Line 2014 plan I did for ActionAid. It looked quite nice, so I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Wild Garlic Pesto revisited, 15p including pasta using foraged garlic These are the lovely, and pungent, flowers of the Wild Garlic Revisited Wild Garlic Pesto today, the very first recipe I posted back in June 2013. The wild garlic is in the woods from now until the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 22, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
Aldi bargains (1) Peperonata, 53p Peperonata is one of those things that we have pretty often. It is a pepper and onion stew that goes with many things, can be used as a main dish or as a side. We first started having it with cheesey gougere, which is choux pastry....
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 13, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Asparagus and Pea Risotto, £1.06 a portion, or frugalised to 75p Did a lovely risotto yesterday using some asparagus Mike brought home. Used up the last of the Arborio rice, so next time I do one, I’ll try the value rice and form an opinion on using it. Also this...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Semi Freddo Red Berry Yogort, 26p a generous portion 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Spaghetti Bolognese made with an Italian recipe, just 41p Had one of those pricing surprises I talk about today. I made a Spaghetti Bolognese using a recipe, not one of those mince splodge things I do, when I add all kinds of things to stretch the mix. I used the...
