• 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 [...]

  • Low sugar oat cookies

    Published On: May 26, 2024Categories: Baking, Snacks

    I made these low sugar oat cookies by mistake as I was following a recipe by What Jessica Baked Next for hob nobs, and I forgot to put the syrup in.  These are therefore a [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Different ways to serve one dish to add variety

    Published On: April 17, 2024Categories: Mains, Saving money on food

    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 [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Sour dough carrot cake traybake

    Published On: April 11, 2024Categories: Baking, Recipes, Snacks

    We keep looking for imaginative ways to use our sour dough discard. I am also looking for ways to use up some of the 15p carrots that were discounted over Easter. Last week we made [...]

  • Feeding your sour dough starter (my sour dough journey)

    Published On: April 11, 2024Categories: Baking, Healthy food, Recipes

    As you know we are on this journey of using and keeping our sour dough starter.  We were given our starter when we attended a sour dough bread course at Apron strings in Hedon. We [...]

  • Rhubarb crumble.

    Published On: April 11, 2024Categories: Baking, Desserts, Growing Food, Recipes

    The rhubarb is loving all of this rain and so I am harvesting it a lot recently. Already I have made rhubarb gin, rhubarb brownies and a couple of days ago we made rhubarb crumble [...]

  • 5 chicken marinades

    Published On: April 10, 2024Categories: Mains, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Wild Garlic Salt

    Published On: April 2, 2024Categories: Foraging For Food, Preserves

    Adding flavour to simple food is important.  We grow a wide selection of herbs and buy spices in bulk.  To help flavour our food over this coming year I decided to make some wild garlic [...]

  • Wild Garlic Hummus

    Published On: April 2, 2024Categories: Foraging For Food, Recipes, Snacks

    This year I am trying to add more variety to the food that we make with wild garlic.  In the past I have just concentrated on pesto or adding fresh leaves to stews or salads.  [...]

  • Airfryer cheese and wild garlic scones with a kick.

    Published On: March 31, 2024Categories: Baking, Foraging For Food, Recipes, Snacks

    There was an abundance of wild garlic this year and we preserve it to flavour our food all year, as well as using it for cooking in spring. Today I fancied making some cheese and [...]

  • Sour dough bread

    Published On: March 28, 2024Categories: Baking, Recipes

    Now that we have a starter we have started making sour dough regularly.  This is the recipe that we use to make sour dough bread.  It was the one we were given by a company [...]

  • Sour dough crumpets

    Published On: March 28, 2024Categories: Breakfasts, Recipes

    We recently attended a sour dough course and we were given a sour a dough starter which I have been trying to keep alive.  I have wanted to make sour dough bread for a long [...]

  • Profiteroles for Mother’s Day

    Published On: March 4, 2024Categories: Baking, Desserts, Recipes

    It is Mother's Day at the weekend here in the UK. A nice idea for a present is to make an afternoon tea.  We used to make afternoon teas to earn extra money and one [...]

  • Slow cooker sausage casserole.

    Published On: March 4, 2024Categories: Mains, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Rustic hash browns

    Published On: February 21, 2024Categories: Breakfasts, Recipes

    The potatoes that I bought for 15p a bag at Christmas are starting to sprout now and so I am finding different ways to use them up without wasting them.  We like to eat a [...]

  • Pickled red cabbage

    Published On: February 21, 2024Categories: Preserves, Recipes

    We had one of the Christmas red cabbages left which are reduced to 15p in supermarkets over the festive week.  The outside was starting to change colour and so I decided to make some pickled [...]

  • Making breakfast sausages

    Published On: February 3, 2024Categories: Breakfasts, Mains, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Date crunch

    Published On: February 1, 2024Categories: Baking, Desserts, Recipes

    We needed something sweet but I didn't want to put the oven on and bake.  I decided to make date crunch as we have supermarket own brand rice crispies that need eating up (we only [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Air fryer Chicken Tikka

    Published On: January 31, 2024Categories: Mains, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Chocolate Yule Log

    Published On: December 21, 2023Categories: Baking, Frugal Festivities, Recipes

    Tonight is the Winter Solstice which is a pagan celebration called Yule.  This is an ancient celebration of the shortest day, midwinter, and the return of lighter days and the sun. A yule log was [...]