by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 30, 2014 | My Diary, Other
I grew one excellent box of radish earlier this year by planting radish seeds in a box in the greenhouse. I have tried several times since to repeat it, with no success at all. The last lot, I sowed in the garden, and they weren’t all that good, and I ended up leaving...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 28, 2014 | My Diary
We have loads of plums in the freezer that I want to use. The challenge is that I am trying not to eat very much sugar at all, so I don’t want to use them in crumbles and pies etc. So, this morning, I got out a little pot of them and whizzed them up with 300ml fridge...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 27, 2014 | Cakes and Bakes, Lunches
I made this soup for lunch today, Raw Carrot & Bramley. It is from Hugh’s latest book, Light & Easy. I’m a bit of a fan, as you know, so I will be doing lots of recipes from here. Mum and my brother came over for a visit yesterday. Mum likes cookery books as...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 26, 2014 | My Diary
I have been reading the posts that Jen Gale has been making this week with extra interest. I always enjoy Jen’s writing and this week she has been writing about wasting less and living more and it has been even more interesting. As a result, I have been musing...
by admin | Sep 24, 2014 | My Diary
Had a great day at WI garden group today. I spoke about how to grow watercress, showed some growing plants and gave a few rooted cuttings. Then gave out pieces of one of my very precious Brandywine tomatoes for people to taste. There is nothing like a Brandywine,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2014 | Dinners
A recipe tonight. This is a dish I have been making for many years and was passed on to me by my Mum. It is filling, delicious, doesn’t take too long to make and is freezable. The portions are pretty generous, so if you don’t want that much, divide it up...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 20, 2014 | Love Your Leftovers, My Diary, Saving Money
More kitchen stuff today. While we were busy, I took out a couple of meals from the freezer for dinner. So we had mango, coconut and chickpea curry. At lunchtime, I ‘loved our leftovers’ as they say. There was a tea cup of Thai curry in the fridge, along...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 19, 2014 | All Recipes, Other
Enjoyed one of these for my lunch today. And this time, I added a piece of preserved lemon, cut up very small. It gave an added dimension of flavour. I already like this sandwich. A lot. And with the addition of a little tangy lemon under flavour, humming away in...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 18, 2014 | My Diary
Lots of progress today. The oven was disconnected and moved out of the way. The new oven housing was put in place, the oven fitted, and connected. The microwave is in the housing above. Eventually, I will replace that with a flat bed combi oven that fits the space...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 17, 2014 | My Diary
I’m afraid I can’t tell you how to make this delectable pudding, called Our Currant Tart. Three friends and I have taken to trying different restaurants, and this week, we were on a mission to go somewhere that did lovely vegetarian food and we went to Terre a Terre...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2014 | My Diary
Having this for lunch today, Toasted Nan and Dahl. I will be using dried chickpeas from my store, some of the coconut milk powder that I have masses of and I shall make a nan using the magic dough in the fridge. For the squeeze of lemon, I shall use a few drops of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 14, 2014 | Cakes and Bakes
I have a migraine hangover headache this week, which means that after the migraine on Friday, for the rest of this week, I will wake up feeling pretty crappy, off-colour and with a sore head, until about 10am. I’ll feel increasingly well through the day. Then at...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2014 | Cakes and Bakes
Pizza for dinner tonight. Oops, forgot to take any pictures, the picture was taken after dark and is the last remaining portion. Remember the magic dough kept in the fridge? When we got back from the bread course we went to at River Cottage, I made a bread mix. I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 12, 2014 | My Diary
Yeurgh, woke up this morning with a burgeoning migraine, and after getting up really early, soon had to go back to bed having popped an Imigran. It’s now almost 6pm and although almost all the pain has gone, every muscle aches. What a waste of a day Was...