• Cheesy waffles

    Published On: March 11, 2025Categories: Light Meals, Recipes, Uncategorized

    This is a nice recipe if you have children or grandchildren.  We are big kids and so make it for ourselves as well.  It can accompany any meal, or be a quick breakfast with an [...]

  • Macaroni cheese

    Published On: February 10, 2025Categories: Light Meals

    Macaroni cheese Macaroni cheese is my grandson's favourite meal, and is cheap and easy to make.  We often add little bits of cauliflower and broccoli to the pasta (macaroni) when cooking it.  It adds extra [...]

  • Cinnamon bagels the easy way.

    Published On: February 10, 2025Categories: Breakfasts, Light Meals

    Easy cinnamon bagels Mr S fancied some cinnamon bagels.  I only want to spend £20 on food this month and so didn't want to buy some, and couldn't be bothered to make some the proper [...]

  • Chorizo and cheese pasties

    Published On: January 22, 2025Categories: Light Meals

    It was a horrible, damp, dismal day yesterday and so we fancied some comfort food.  We are on the pantry challenge and so I am trying to use as few ingredients as possible.  We first [...]

  • Mexican Rice

    Published On: January 14, 2025Categories: Light Meals, Mains

    I wanted something filling for lunch and we have a lot of bits and pieces around to use up, including a small chicken breast that I had taken out of the freezer a couple of [...]

  • Air fryer quick, cheap, quiche

    Published On: November 27, 2024Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes

    So many people tell me that they can not cook from scratch because they do not have time, don't have enough money, or it is too much bother.  Here is a cheap, quick meal that [...]

  • Samosas

    Published On: November 17, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes

    We had made a curry with all of our vegetables for the meal tonight, including some pureed pumpkin.  As it is the weekend, I decided to make the samosas as an accompaniment to make the [...]

  • Air fryer smoked cheese and apple quiche

    Published On: September 29, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes

    I wanted to make something nice for lunch to have with salad from the garden.  I  needed to make something quickly and have been meaning to make this air fryer smoked cheese and apple quiche [...]

  • Crispy cheese, onion, and bacon wrap.

    Published On: September 11, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes

    We felt like something 'dirty' and unhealthy to eat the other day for lunch.  We have been trying so hard to stick to a healthy diet but some times I just need something 'forbidden' to [...]

  • Air fryer Spanish Omelette

    Published On: August 19, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes

    We had an air fryer Spanish Omelette for breakfast this morning as I was trying to use up bit and pieces in the fridge, including some previously boiled new potatoes left over from dinner a [...]

  • Quick Quiche

    Published On: July 20, 2024Categories: Baking, Light Meals, Recipes

    I always make quiche when I have some left over pastry and the oven is on.  It is a good way of using up bits from the fridge as you can add any thing that [...]

  • Sausage Rolls

    Published On: July 19, 2024Categories: Baking, Light Meals, Recipes

    We decided to go to the beach for the day and so I got up early and made some sausage rolls for the picnic. They are my grandson's favourite.  I always try to make sausage [...]

  • Stuffed Peppers

    Published On: July 15, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes

    We got 6 peppers reduced to 10p each the other day and so we decided to make stuffed peppers as it is something that we have not been able to afford to make recently.  I [...]

  • Vegetable salad and how to turn it into Spicy Coleslaw.

    Published On: July 2, 2024Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes

    This is a lovely, bright salad which is full of colour. It uses what is in season and growing in the garden. Ingredients 1/3 of a red cabbage shredded, or thinly sliced. 1/3 of a [...]

  • Lemon Balm Pesto

    Published On: June 6, 2024Categories: Growing Food, Light Meals, Recipes

    My lemon balm is really doing well this year. I make hot drinks with it but I don't really utilise it enough.  It has a number of medicinal uses and so I am keen to [...]

  • Spinach wraps

    Published On: May 29, 2024Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes

    I wanted a healthy substantial breakfast today, and I have so much spinach to use up.  My perpetual spinach is going mad this year.  I therefore decided to make some spinach wraps.  We eat a [...]

  • Cous Cous Salad

    Published On: May 26, 2024Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes

    I love making  cous cous salad as it is a quick healthy meal. I make it on the days when I can not be bothered to cook or if I have been busy in the [...]

  • Banana pancakes

    Published On: April 29, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes

    I had a couple of over ripe bananas to use up and I was short of things to eat for breakfast. I  therefore thought that I would make some banana pancakes. Now I know that [...]

  • Savoury Nests from leftovers

    Published On: April 13, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes, Saving money on food

    We never buy food especially for lunches.  We use what we have in.  Often this means using left overs.  The other day we had a bit of spicy stew left and some mashed potatoes,  There [...]

  • Stretching a tin of beans

    Published On: April 13, 2024Categories: Breakfasts, Light Meals

    At them moment we are not doing any food shopping for 2 to 3 weeks.  I have an annual food budget and we have plenty of food in the house and so I will shop [...]

  • Onion bhaji

    Published On: February 1, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes

    We made a little Indian buffet yesterday for our meal.  We used some left over curry, chicken tikka, and chapati, and made some onion bhaji to pad it it out.  We actually did not have [...]

  • Mix and match vegetarian soups

    Published On: October 27, 2023Categories: Light Meals, Recipes, Vegetarian

    Some one asked me how to make a soup.  Every soup I make is different as I mix and match ingredients to make my soup, depending what needs using up in the fridge and what [...]

  • Quick air fryer pizza

    Published On: August 31, 2023Categories: Baking, Light Meals, Recipes

    Sometimes when Mr S is at work I have a busy day and do not feel like cooking him a meal for when he gets home.  On these days I will make him something quickly [...]

  • Courgette and sweet potato cheesy bites

    Published On: June 19, 2023Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes, Snacks

    The courgettes (zucchini) are coming in thick and fast now.  I have picked 9 in the last 2 days.  I didn't really cook with them before I started growing them, but they are so versatile [...]