by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 22, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 2
Vegan Couscous Salad How to make vegan couscous salad This is pretty simple and doesn’t take long. Put couscous in a bowl with oil and water. Add grated carrot. Cook some green peas (1 min in the microwave from frozen will do it) and add to the couscous If you have...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 7, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Other
Wild Garlic Pesto What does wild garlic look like? Since writing this post way back in 2013, I’ve discovered that what I have growing in my garden are Allium triquetrum and not wild garlic as I thought! It tastes the same! Wild garlic which you are likely to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 25, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Other
Home Made Pitta Bread Greek Cuisine This easy pitta bread recipe are the ones I made on a Greek Cuisine course I went on with my husband at Claverham College. One of the things we made were these home made pitta bread. I think you will be able to see from the picture...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 10, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
Tomato Lasagna Another entry for the library of lasagne – a tomato one. This is one I made a while ago and posted on Facebook, but didn’t write a proper post Tomato Lasagna Serves 4. Priced at Asda March 2019 Ragu layer 1 large onion, finely chopped, 75p/kg,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 22, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
Lentil Ragu Lasagna I recently made a really good lentil ragu. The flavour was strong enough that I thought it may well make a good lasagna. This is the result and it was very good indeed! It will freeze well, so is something you can batch make. Lentil Ragu Lasagna...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
Vegan Valentine Meal Vegan Valentine Meal I’ve been thinking about a celebration meal for this years Valentines Day and decided to do a vegan one this year. Two courses are from the archives, one, the starter, is a new, although very simple, invention. So we have a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 19, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
Lentil ragu with spaghetti Lentil ragu with spaghetti Made something really good this evening inspired by a recipe from this book. I’ve tweaked it a bit, as you do, so this is my version of it. First printed in 1994 and still in print and extremely cheap from Amazon....
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 10, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Kounoupithi Yiahni or Tomato Stewed Cauliflower. A traditional Greek food Having recently been on holiday, and enjoying the local food, I was keen to explore some traditional Greek food recipes when I got back. A reader, Vera George, who is Greek, offered some of her...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 10, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Kounoupidi tiganitó or Greek Fried Cauliflower This recipe is the 2nd one from Vera George. I was on holiday in Greece in September and Vera, who is of Greek heritage, has kindly offered some of her Greek food recipes. I love exploring recipes from other places....
by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Busy, busy, busy, plus a long lasting Tzatziki. Make a sandwich with it for lunch, with lettuce, for 14p A long lasting Tzatziki. Make a sandwich with it for lunch, with lettuce, for 14p Well phew, what a busy weekend. And you should see my diary for the next...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 7, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
Vegetable and hummus pie Savory vegetarian pie recipes are always popular and this version is one we made in my cookery group. This is not only a vegetarian recipe but just happens to be a vegan vegetable pie too. I found the recipe in Delicious, but have changed it...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Other
Got too many runner beans? This lovely pesto will use up loads! If you grow runner beans, you may well have times, like me, when you are a bit overwhelmed with them and don’t know what else to do with them. Personally, I think home frozen runners are vile. I’ve tried...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 24, 2017 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Walnut ‘Nutella’ and wheat bisks bites. These are so good they’re dangerous! Having tried faux Nutella with hazelnuts and butter, I wanted to try another version with oil. Having run out of hazelnuts, I used walnuts. So I nipped into the kitchen and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 25, 2017 | All Recipes, Other
The easiest sundried tomatoes in olive oil – ever! And use them in instant tomato pan fried focaccia A couple of very quick things for you today. Super simple. Do you remember I bought some big bags of wonderful sun dried tomatoes from Healthy Supplies. They...
