Chorizo & Green Bean Ragù – a delicious sauce served on a bed of spaghetti! A quick and tasty midweek meal the family will love! You may or may not be following my social media but if you do you will have seen my various fruit and vegetable bargains which I have been enjoying by…
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July’s Credit Crunch Munch Roundup
It was my pleasure to host Credit Crunch Munch during July and I was blown away by the wonderful number of entries – 34 in total!I have found there is so much money to be saved just by changing the time I go shopping and in turn this has inspired so many recipes because there’s…
Caramelised Courgette Soup
This delicious Caramelised Courgette Soup is perfect for using a glut of courgettes. The courgettes are fried until golden which gives the gorgeous caramelised flavour! Having the children at home for the holidays means more mouths to feed than usual and with all the bargains I’ve been finding in Tesco lately (see my Facebook page)…
Green Soup with Sea Spaghetti & my 1p bargains!
Green Soup with Sea Spaghetti is made with cabbage, greens, leek, celery, courgette, spinach, and kale which is finished off with a garnish of fried sea spaghetti seaweed! Healthy, vegan & delicious! Last Sunday I popped out for some sugar to make some Gooseberry Jam as my dad, ever the fruit magnet, had been invited…
Spicy Black Turtle Bean Burgers
Vegetarian Spicy Black Turtle Bean Burgers have added sweetcorn, Cheddar cheese, sriracha and coriander etc. So delicious, even meat eaters will love them! The other day I came across a bag of black turtle beans that had recently gone out of date at the back of my cupboard. I’d been sent them last year and…
Curried Egg Mayonnaise with Ham & Sweetcorn Jacket Potato
The great thing about growing older is the fact that you have an abundance of food memories and every now and then you can dig one out and relive it. One such food memory for me is this Curried Egg Mayonnaise with Ham & Sweetcorn Jacket Potato. When I was a teen there used to…
Persian Halloumi and the #ToshibaCookalong
Sponsored by Toshiba & Gousto I was recently invited by Toshiba and Gousto to take part in the #ToshibaCookalong with a few fellow bloggers via Skype. We all received a Toshiba Satellite Radius 11 and a box of ingredients from Gousto in order to carry out our mission. I had never done anything like this…
Chilli SPAM & Eggs
When SPAM Chopped Pork and Ham asked me to come up with a recipe suitable for camping using its easy to open tub, I jumped at the chance. I may have only camped in my garden but I have watched a lot of ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here” so feel like I’m an…
Simple Fat Free Spinach Soup (vegan)
Simple Fat Free Spinach Soup does what it says on the tin! Super healthy, easy to make and delicious – what’s not to love? Sometimes you know you have been over indulging in the wrong types of food and you just want to put the brakes on and treat your body to something really nutritious,…
Sunny Picnic Quiches
Delicious Sunny Picnic Quiches made with chorizo, pepper, and cheddar cheese. Perfect for making with children and ideal for lunchboxes! To celebrate the release of ‘Annie’ on Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 27th April, I was challenged to develop a suitable recipe. The film stars Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané, Wallis, and Cameron Diaz who bring the…