by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 16, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
Crispy Topped Miso Vegetables This super tasty dinner recipe came out of a need to use up various items in the fridge. How to make crispy topped miso vegetables For this version, I used a pepper, a third of a bag of bean sprouts, 2 broccoli stalks, a carrot, 3...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 18, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
A Vegan Vegetable Bake – Celery, Swede & Chickpea I picked up a couple of heads of celery on yellow sticker this week. I wanted to make something main coursey with at least one of them. I had a little google and looked at Pinterest and came up with this...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2016 | All Recipes, Other
Home made Paneer. Cheap, delicious, versatile and nutritious. What’s not to like? Inspired by the talented Miki Knight on the wonderful Feed Yourself for £1 A Day face book page, I decided to finally get round to making some home made paneer. Following Miki’s...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 8, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Lentil flour and the simplest bread I’ve ever made I was looking round the Internet last week, as you do, and came across lentil flour. What’s that, thought I, sounds intriguing. I started off with lentil flour and ended up with a loaf made with fizzy...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 29, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
A kitchen experiment, Pea-Crumb Fritters, 6p Did one of my very favourite things today and had a play in the kitchen and ended up with these pea-crumb fritters. Have been thinking about doing some kind of frittery thing using mushy peas for a while now. Had a little...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 11, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Raw chickpea carrot falafel, 15p. Delicious, with sweet variations too going through my cook books I have been looking through a few of my (far too many really! ) cook books recently. I do this every now and again, and note down any recipes I like the look of. One of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 7, 2016 | Breakfast, Lunches
Mushrooms on toast, 41p. A super simple plate of loveliness for any time of day I’ve had mushrooms on toast for breakfast a couple of times recently. But it’s really filling and I think it would also make a great lunch or simple supper dish. Perfect for one. Very...
