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Using Home-Grown Tomatoes: Roast Tomato Sauce
Having planted 12 tomato plants this year in grow bags and ring culture pots around my garden, I’ve been picking a lot of tomatoes recently. The two main varieties I’ve grown are Gardener’s Delight and Moneymaker. The former provides loads of large … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheap Meals, Growing Vegetables, Pasta Sauce, Roast Tomato Sauce, Simple Cooking, Soups and Stews, Tomato, Vegetables
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Red Onion Marmalade
Last year I made my first ever foray into preserving, with a rather nice caramelised red onion chutney. I say “rather nice”, but at the time (a month after I made it) I wasn’t totally convinced. My daughter and her … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, Preserving, Recipes, red onion marmalade recipe, Vegetables
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Salmon Fish Cakes
As part of the ongoing efforts to keep people fed and to use stuff up before it goes off, I decided I wanted to find a recipe for salmon fish cakes. They needed to be suitable for freezing, as my … Continue reading
Caramelised Red Onion Chutney: a qualified success
A while ago I posted about making my first ever chutney: a caramelised red onion one. The recipe said to leave it for a month or more to allow the flavour to mature, before trying it, and today I realised … Continue reading
Success! Russet Apple Compote & Scones
On my way back from the allotment at the weekend I called in to my local shop to grab some milk and made a lucky find of a fridge full of perfectly edible fruit and veg, reduced to pennies. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Apples, Baking, Cheap Meals, Cheese Scones, Compote, Cooking, Freezing Scones, Frugal Cooking, Health, leek and potato soup, Low Fat Recipes, Recipes, Scones, Simple Cooking, Student Cooking
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Recipe: How to make a simple casserole.
The very first main course I learned to cook was this one, a Boeuf Bourguignon from my copy of Leith’s Cookery Bible: the first and best cookery book I ever bought. It introduced all sorts of terms that I didn’t … Continue reading
Adventures in Cooking: Using Stuff Up Part III
Haven’t you finished that yet? Well, no, because I can procrastinate better and harder and longer than you can and the only reason I did some more yesterday was that I didn’t want to have to bin food and that … Continue reading
Recipe: Cauliflower Cheese: Surprise!
The nice thing about being able to make a cauliflower cheese from scratch, apart from the obvious taste one, is that you can make exactly as much as you need. You don’t have to cook an entire fresh cauliflower and frozen … Continue reading
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Tagged Bechamel Sauce, Cauliflower Cheese, Cheap Meals, Cheese Sauce, Cooking, Frugal Cooking, Leeks, Recipes, Student Cooking, Vegetables, Winging It
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My First Chutney: Caramelised Red Onion
I’ve been using stuff up in a mammoth few days of cooking, Part I of which can be found here. My fridge and veg cupboard were/are full of stuff that needs using up through cooking and freezing. I’m now tackling the kilo … Continue reading
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Tagged Chutney, Frugal Cooking, Preserving, Recipes, Red Onion, Sterilising, Vegetables
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Recipe: Parsnip & Rosemary Risotto
This risotto is very simple and cheap to make, makes loads, freezes well and is easy to reheat. It can be entirely vegetarian, which can be a handy thing to have under your belt if a vegetarian somehow gets themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheap Meals, Family Meals, Frugal Cooking, Recipes, Rice, Risotto, Simple Cooking, Student Cooking, Students, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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