by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 21, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 1
An Easy Fruit Loaf A lovely, slicing, easy to make fruit loaf. Use any dried fruit you have. Cuts into 12 slices at 8p a slice First published in June 2013, updated June 2021 How To Make an Easy Fruit Loaf Line a 2lb loaf tin and heat the oven Stir all the dry...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 9, 2021 | All Recipes, Other
Apricot jam. Fresh and wonderful, and better than even the poshest versions you can buy! Damn Fine Home Made Apricot Jam I first wrote this apricot jam recipe in July 2019, and updated it in June 2021 This wonderful apricot jam recipe makes six beautiful jars of jam....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 4, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Apple Bread I like a banana bread, but today, I was looking at my fruit bowl and wondered if other fruit could be used in place of the bananas. How about apple bread I thought? Ooh, or spiced apple bread? How can I make apple bread healthy? To make the apple bread...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 22, 2020 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Puddings / Desserts
Easy Poached Pears Without Alcohol I made these rather wonderful easy poached pears without wine today when we had guests for lunch. I thought I’d see if I could frugalise the recipe. I have described these as with no alcohol, although I realise that the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 10, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Other, Sides
Puchka tart. What’s that? Complete deliciousness on a plate, that’s what Puchka tart. What’s that? Complete deliciousness on a plate, that’s what The U3A cooking group met at my house this week. When wondering what to make, I thought, like last December,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 13, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Love Your Leftovers, Lunches
Bean Burgers I went to Canterbury Christmas Market with the U3A last December. One of the things I did there was to browse in the Oxfam book shop. Lots I wanted, of course, and I bought 3, couldn’t carry any more! One of the books I bought was a very sweary one...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 11, 2020 | All Recipes, Love Your Leftovers
Love Your Leftovers – Citrus. Peelings, Pith & Pips Oranges If you are having an orange, do you do anything with the peel, the pith or the pips? Zest If I am just having an orange to eat, I’ll often zest it into a small container that I keep in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 27, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Hazelnut Butter Vegetable Bake – GF, DF & Vegan Just had lunch and made something different. I’ve got some lovely nut butters in the fridge that I got from SousChef.co.uk. I love that site, it’s got masses of lovely cheffy things! I got big 1kg...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 9, 2020 | Competitions
Competition – 3 litre or 1.8 litre slow cooker It’s the season of casseroles and hearty, warming food. I love meat that’s been cooked long and slow. I think it really brings out the flavour, and that cuts that need long, slow cooking tend to have more flavour in...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 6, 2019 | Competitions
Competition – Mliter Digital Food Dehydrator I almost finished setting up this competition for a Mliter Digital Food Dehydrator a month ago, but life got in the way. This fab prize is perfect for preserving garden and allotment surpluses or a bargain at the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 19, 2019 | My Diary
The garden in July I took a few pictures of the garden this week. It’s been looking really good this year. I usually buy a basil plant and put it in a large pot, it lasts all summer. I’ve tried keeping one in the house over winter, but they really...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 17, 2019 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Quick Banana Bread This is such a classic recipe, and we haven’t got one on Thrifty Lesley. Tass, a Facebook member, supplied this delicious sounding quick banana bread recipe way back in 2015. We do get through quite a lot of bananas, but in summer, they go brown and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 10, 2019 | Competitions
Competition – copy of Tin Can Cook It’s ages since I run the last competition and I’ve been meaning to set this one up for a while. I’ve been distracted by doing lots of work to improve the way Google can find the blog. I enjoy writing and...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 1, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
Green Pea Hummus Lasagna I have been exploring swapping out the ragu layer of a lasagna for many other different things. The first was made using a really good lentil ragu which I thought would work well as a lasagna. It was very successful and inspired me to think of...
