Bacon & Sweetcorn Pie

Bacon & Sweetcorn Pie

Bacon & Sweetcorn Pie This post was first written in June 2013 and updated in June 2021. This recipe is one of those extremely variable ones. You can bake this as a pie, leave the top of and bake as a bacon and sweetcorn tart, or steam it as a pudding and change...
A gorgeous home made Pad Thai

A gorgeous home made Pad Thai

A gorgeous home made Pad Thai I run a cooking group for the local U3A that meets once a month, and this months meeting was today. We made plain chow mein, a creamy leek cheese toast topper and this wonderful Pad Thai. It works out rather expensive for our budget here,...
Picnics in the cold, and a tin of tuna

Picnics in the cold, and a tin of tuna

Picnics in the cold, and a tin of tuna Went to Glyndebourne yesterday, with the friend I go to see the live transmissions with. No, not the posh, picnic in the garden type. Very expensive! We went to see the youth group do a modern opera called Nothing. It was...
Vegan 5:2 Tom Yum with shredded cabbage, 43p

Vegan 5:2 Tom Yum with shredded cabbage, 43p

Today is a 5:2 day and I had this gorgeous soup at lunchtime. I’ve had a look on mySupermarket and the Tom Yum Paste doesn’t seem to be stocked in the supermarkets. I got mine at an Asian shop. Amazon has some at £3.99/400g, Sainsburys has its own version...

Green Thai Kidney Bean Curry, 59p

We had an oldie but goodie for tea this evening. Thai green curry. I used a mix of carrots, a red and green pepper, Savoy cabbage, tomatoes and an onion. The protein part was paneer, and we had it with brown basmati. I tried costing it, but it came out to 98p, and...
Chicken, Soy, Honey and Sesame with Rice

Chicken, Soy, Honey and Sesame with Rice

I am supposed to be recipe testing the anchovy paste, but after chicken-gate this morning, guess what we’re having this eve? So I thought I would write up this recipe. It’s something I found somewhere or other and tweaked, as you do. A few years ago, a very good...
Corned Beef & Mushroom Pie

Corned Beef & Mushroom Pie

One day this week, I did a variation of the bacon and sweetcorn pie. I used a tin of corned beef that was in the cupboard to make a corned beef pie. The pie only used half the tin, for a 4 portion pie. I used the other half to make 4 portions of beef hash which I’ll...