Lasagne is a staple for us. I make it every other month. I used to always make it with meat bulked out with vegetable and lentils. As meat doubled in price over the last few [...]

We have had the Autumn Equinox The days will be getting shorter, and we have entered  a new cycle. Our temperatures are certainly falling and so we felt like comfort food last week. I had [...]

I needed to make some turkey burgers in a hurry but didn't  have a lot of turkey mince. The turkey mince had been in the freezer a while. I was worried that it wouldn't taste [...]

I am trying to be more imaginative with the way that I use my crops. The idea is that they form part of the main dish rather than a side. Today I made filled beetroot [...]

I had been given some out of date pastry. Friends give me their out of date food as I am always banging on about not wasting anything. However, except for fruit, I didn't have anything [...]

It was a use up what we have in the fridge day today. I will often have half a tin of beans in the fridge and one or two of our thicked, cooked sausages. If [...]

Ratatouille is one of the meals that we like to eat all summer.  It tastes so fresh, and I can make it from ingredients in my garden.  I am guessing that French would put their [...]

Vegan chilli is a cheap and tasty meal and, although we are not vegan, it is one of our staple meals as it is full of goodness and easy to make.  I don't always have [...]

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 [...]

We are doing a pantry challenge, and so I am using up things from the freezer and cupboards for the next few months.  I have lots of Christmas left overs, including a ham joint that [...]

One of  my friends was giving away food as unfortunately her freezer had broken and everything was defrosting.  She gave us some white fish fillets.  They are the kind of ones that you find frozen [...]

We do not eat a lot of meat now for financial, and health reasons, but do still enjoy some simple meat meals with the classical potatoes and vegetables, and sometimes gravy. This is a great [...]

We have squashes that we have grown in the garden, but they are also cheaper to buy in the shops as well at this time of year as they are in season.  Our favourite is [...]

My friend said that she needed to go to the supermarket as she had nothing in to feed the 3 of them tonight.  However, she had no money. I had none to lend her. She [...]

We love fish but it is very expensive.  We therefore stretch it by making a fish pie.  A pie will feed 4 people with one piece of fish, some vegetables, and a hand full of [...]

This recipe reminds me of many happy holidays in Greece when I was younger. We serve these on their own or with potato wedges and salad.  It is lovely on a hot day and a [...]

Sweet and sour kebabs are one of my favourite recipes at the moment.  The meat melts in the mouth and they are so tasty.  I first made it when we had friends coming round to [...]

Orzo is something new to us.  I had never eaten it until we had it in a cafe on the Shetland Islands.  In fact I had never heard of it.  I managed to get a [...]

About 3 times a month I make what I call a pauper's stew.  This is a stew that I make in the slow cooker with any thing that I have that needs using up (or [...]

When the weather gets warmer we will be eating more simple and cleaner meals.  Every week we will have chicken with either chips, grains like quinoa, or homemade savoury rice, and a fresh salad picked [...]

I use casseroles and soups to use up bits of wizened vegetables and odd bits of cooked meat.  It is also a way of using small quantities of uncooked meat that would not be enough [...]

Any one who has been following my website for a while will know that we try to make as many things from scratch as we can.  This is for 3 main reasons.  We need to [...]

We  are trying to tempt my brother to eat.  He fancied chicken tikka but there are lots of foods that he can not eat anymore due to his illness.  We therefore could not make it [...]

We have had our Christmas this weekend as it was the only time that we could all get together.  There are new grandparents in law to consider now, and some members of the family work [...]