I am ill with a cold, but luckily haven’t had any time off work ill since the end of February. I’ll take small victories where I can. I generally have stomach issues, colds I get about once a year, so hopefully this is all I will have to put up with in 2018. I have […]
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Gooey Date Bars
This is my interpretation of a recipe I came across on the Money Saving Expert site. I intend for these to be a post gym snack. MAKES 16 SQUARES INGREDIENTS 20cm x 20cm Baking Tin 250ml Water 200g Dates 180g Plain Flour 1/2 Tsp Bicarbonate of Soda 180g Soft Brown Sugar 200g Porridge Oats 180g […]
Store Cupboard Granola (Batch Cooking)
This was inspired by a recipe in Eat Smart by Niomi Smart, which I currently have out on loan from the Library. This recipe relegated from my cupboards my seeds, walnuts and cranberries which has freed up a lot of space. INGREDIENTS 60ml Coconut Oil 125ml Agave Nectar 200g Porridge Oats 260g of mixed nuts, […]
Batch Cooking My Work Lunches: Red Lentil and Coconut Soup
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to batch cook. (Ok, that is not strictly true, I made 2 portions of a swede, cabbage, onion, carrot and pea soup earlier this week, but for various reasons it smelt and tasted bad, we all make mistakes). I have decided to use up what I have […]
Snow Day Rolls
In South Wales on Thursday and Friday there were Red Level Weather Warnings due to the snow. On Saturday we were running low on supplies. Well, we had plenty of ‘freezer bread’ but The Boy for some reason detests the freezer bread, he also turned his nose up at my dried milk powder, so we […]
Flo’s Gra-Yes-La*
*The title is my idea of humour, sorry. I saw a lovely recipe for Granola in Gizzi Erskine’s ‘Skinny Weeks and Weekend Feasts’ which I have taken out of the library. The main appeal of the recipe was that it used dried apple and I had most of a bag of them left and they […]
Life Hack: Easy Peasy Omelette
Hi everyone, It’s been a while since I posted a recipe, and this isn’t really a recipe as such, and it will probably turn out everyone knows how to do it, but it is at the least food related. I am a bit crap at making Omelettes, and sometimes I will go to the effort, […]
Leftover Christmas Muffins
I had a sad looking apple in the fruit bowl and a jar of mincemeat from Christmas. I made these. INGREDIENTS 400g Jar of Mincemeat 250g Self Raising Flour 2 teaspoons of Baking Powder 1 giant apple/2 medium apples, diced 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 50g sugar 1 egg, beaten Butter/Oil METHOD Sieve the flour, baking […]
Festive Chocolate Chip Shortbread
I decided to make some shortbread as it is Christmas and I wanted to use my lovely Christmas cookie cutters. You might not believe me but I actually used white chocolate chips, they do look like milk chocolate in the photo though. Also you can’t see it but one of the shortbread cut using my […]
Cheapskate Puttanesca
Hi everyone, In a bid to use up my stores I discovered a tin of plum tomatoes that expired in September. Knowing that I have the house to myself tonight I decided to make a puttanesca sauce, but wanted to do it on the cheap. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t usually look for reasons […]
