Food & Drink

One Woman Dinner: Pasta With Honeyed Savoy, Bacon, Carrot And Chilli. 25p for a generous bowlful. Well this is what I came up with this evening. Every now and again, my body *wants* meat. While a vegetable based diet is low cost and healthy, sometimes a big craving kicks in and won’t go away until…

This is one of my go-to recipes, a whatever-happens-to-be-in-the-cupboard special. I sometimes add a chopped chilli to the onion, and some coriander from my window ledge herb box, but I have given the basic recipe below – feel free to customize it as you wish. when it comes to my lunch, I can be an…

Courgette, sultana and lemon bread. 57p – I’m getting extravagant… Works out just over 14p per portion though, so not bad for breakfast! I had to find a use for some sad looking courgettes I bought a week ago, at £1.80 for a kilogram, it seemed like a good idea at the time. The next…

Ingredients (Serves 2) Half a can of potatoes, 8p (15p/540g) 2 tbsp oil, 5p (£4.50/3l) 1/2 teaspoon mustard, 1p (28p/180g) Generous pinch of cumin, 3p (95p/42g) 2 heaped tbsp chopped spinach, 7p (£1.39/kg – frozen) 1. If using frozen spinach, either run under warm water to defrost, leave in a dish at room temperature, or…

Parsnip, Thyme and ‘Parmesan’ Loaf, 56p per loaf, makes 4 chunky pieces at 14p per portion. I have four sad parsnips kicking about in the bottom of my fridge from two consecutive £1-veg-bags, so this is another ‘well what am I going to do with THAT?’ recipe off the cuff. Bread never stays around for…

While testing recipes for my book this week, it was inevitable that I would start to put leftover ingredients together to come up with accidental dishes. This speedy and satisfying late lunch was born of some scraps of cooking bacon left over from Spring Piggy, and some sad looking Brie from the Courgette and Brie…

Oh My God Dinner (or, ‘I Was Going To Make Pasta Alla Genovese And Then I Remembered That Sodding Courgette Rolling Around In My Fridge…’) 55p for 2 portions, or just under 28p each. Ingredients: 70g bacon, 11p (£1.09/670g, Sainsburys Basics) 1 chilli (free, grows on my window ledge) 80g spaghetti, 6p (39p/500g, Sainsburys Basics)…

Like many of my recipes, this was a toss-together of some ’fridge stuff’ – some rogue Greek cheese and a courgette that was kicking about. harking back to my Cypriot roots for what was initially going to be a tzatziki, this ended up as something else entirely. The sauce or dip, or whatever it should…

Mushroom, Bacon and Ale Casserole, 56p, serves 2 at 28p per portion. I’ve got three of a four pack of very cheap Bitter under my sink from making this bread, so decided to put one to use with a hearty winter warming dinner. Along with my trusty cheap bacon (£1.09 for 670g of perfectly good…

People often ask me why I don’t buy items from the Reduced chiller at the supermarket: well I do, I just don’t tend to blog about them, on the basis that they aren’t dependable, and price reductions vary from supermarket chain to supermarket chain, and even store to store. However, on finding a packet of…