by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 17, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Stretch A Chicken
Chicken and Vegetable Risotto (no wine) – Stretch A Chicken (2) Risotti are incredibly useful to use up all kinds of bits and pieces. Or, as here, using leftover roast chicken and a couple of vegetables to make something truly delectable. How to make Italian...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 14, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
Barley, Mushroom & Spinach Risotto I had the cookery group round recently and we explored making risotti. We did a tomato and sausage risotto, a beetroot risotto, and this barley, mushroom and spinach risotto. Well actually, it was barley and mushroom risotto, I...
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 | Aug 13, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Other
Rocket, watercress, basil and sunflower seed pesto. Nut and gluten free Another variation of pesto today – rocket, watercress, basil and sunflower seed. ingredients I’ve been tidying up out in the garden today and the rocket is one of the few things doing well this...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 4, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Other
Sage, lemon and pumpkin seed pesto £2.99 for a huge jar I really fancied something made with a lemon from the fridge and lots of mint from the garden today. But the mint is straggly and chewed. An alternative would have been lemon balm, but that was even worse, every...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 13, 2016 | Breakfast, Round Up Post
Overnight Oats – squillions of ideas I am a new convert to overnight oats, and I’m loving them. These are wonderful if you are time stretched. You can make up dishes ready to be topped, or a big bowl that can be used over several days, or directly in...
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 | Dec 7, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Zombie burgers using dead bread Tried the first experiment with reviving dead bread stored as breadcrumbs today. Had a look in the fridge and found a few bits and pieces that I thought would work, got a bag of breadcrumbs out of the freezer and had a play. I have set...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 19, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Love Your Leftovers, Lunches, Round Up Post
Using breadcrumbs for dinner Went to a U3A meeting this morning on Science. One of our number talked about Astronomy. We discussed the immense distances involved and moved on to the possibility of life elsewhere. The presenter is a chemist, so we had a very...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
This is dinner on day 2 and 5 of Meal Plan 9 Pasta & Tomato Sauce serves 2 60g cheddar, grated,Asda 350g/£1.55, 27p 100g onion, Asda 1kg/59p, 6p 300g tinned tomatoes – NB, not a whole tin, 23p 150g value pasta, 500g/29p, 9p 20g veg oil, Asda litre/89p, 2p...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 23, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Roasted Vegetables in the Hole, 43p Arrgh, the pictures simply won’t size properly, it’s driving me nuts! Doing some gardening today, I pulled up a self sown Pink Fir Apple potato that was in the way of the spinach and it had several little potatoes on, so I had those...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 31, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Using up Salsa di Noci Very simple lunch today. I still had some of the walnut sauce left from the Salsa di Noci , so I lightly cooked a whole pile of vegetables and tipped them on a plate. Then I loosened the sauce with a bit more lemon juice and a blob of yogurt and...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 28, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Melanzane parmigiana, 67p a serving I made this for DD2 recently and it came out pretty well, although rather salty. The basic recipe is another one from The Silver Spoon Edit 17Jun15 – I made this again and left out all seasoning and it was still quite salty enough,...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 27, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
101 ideas for dinner tomorrow, from 14p to 97p per portion, most around the 50p mark Wondering what to make for dinner tomorrow? Have a little look at the table of dinners from the ‘Recipes’ tab and see if you can find any inspiration Dinners Show entries Search: Cost...
