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Earthy Red Wine & Mushroom Risotto, 36p.
Earthy Red Wine & Mushroom Risotto, Serves One. 36p. Still needing easy but comforting food with this cold, I decided to go for carbs and wine and goodness… I’ve never known anyone else to use red...
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Breakfast Sunshine Buns, 6p each
Breakfast Sunshine Buns – Pineapple, Carrot and Sultana) – 49p for 8 at 6p each. Ingredients:* 250g flour, 11p (65p/1.5kg) 1 sachet fast action dried yeast, 11p 30g sultanas, 6p (99p/500g) 1 carrot, 5p...
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Mexican Chocolate, Chilli & Black Bean Soup, 25p
Mexican Chocolate, Chilli and Black Bean Soup, 99p. Serves 4 at 25p per portion. In a fit of organisation, I got up an hour early this morning to make myself some of this for my lunch. I’d popped the...
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Leek, Savoy & Smoked Cheese Pasta, 43p
Well, Lent is over and save a few hiccups, accidental and weakness, I managed to add quite a lot to my vegan recipe repertoire over the past month and a half. However, a week ago when I was clearing...
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School Dinner Days Jam Sponge, 23p
School Dinner Jam Sponge, 90p for 4 at 23p each. Ingredients:* 100g self raising flour, 4p (65p/1.5kg) 70g butter, 34p (£1.20/250g) 2 eggs, 44p (£2.65/12 free range) 50g sugar, 5p (89p/kg) 4 heaped...
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Lemon Curd Sponge Puddings, 24p.
Lemon Curd Sponge Puddings, 95p for 4 or 24p each. Luckily for me, as I shop very carefully, I have most of the ingredients for this in the cupboard at all times. Unluckily for my jeans, that means I’m...
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Carrot, Cumin & Kidney Bean Burger, 9p
This was today’s lunch – although the burger cost 9p to make (I’ve frozen the other three for days when I get home from work and want something quick and easy!) the salad, bun and chutney probably...
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Jardaloo Ma Murghi (Curry With Apricots) 22p
Jardaloo Ma Murghi (Curry With Apricots) 87p for 4 portions, or 22p each. This is my favourite curry, my go to, my easy but perfect comfort food. I used to make this with turkey, which at £1.75 for a...
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Earthy Red Wine and Mushroom Soup, 24p per portion*
Given that mushrooms are one of my staple products, I wanted to make a simple mushroom soup. It’s one of the things I craved while doing my Live Below The Line challenge, and while there’s still barely...
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Spiced Potato Soup, 10p
Spiced potato soup, serves four for 10p each. Ingredients* One tin of tinned potatoes, 15p One chicken stock cube, 2p (15p/packet of 10) Pinch of cumin, 3p (95p/42g jar) One onion, 11p 100ml natural...
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Spiced spinach potatoes (or – Poor Girl Oh So Yummy Aloo Saag) – 12p.
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...
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Airy Fairy Easy Peasy Soda Bread
Think you can’t make bread? Or that you need a fancy pants bread maker to do so? RUBBISH. You have a natural, free bread maker in your palms and your knuckles – and this easy recipe with no proving or...
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Brie and bacon risotto, 26p
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...
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Roasted courgette and feta, Greek inspired potato salad. 13p.
Mm mm mm – recipe testing for The Book still, I had some rogue Greek cheese and a courgette kicking about in the bottom of the fridge, and felt compelled to make some simple food out of such a classic...
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Creamy Greek cheese and courgette pasta, 28p
Ingredients (Serves four at 27p each) 1 courgette, 30p (£1.80/6) 1 tablespoon oil (sunflower or vegetable), 3p (£4.50/3l) Half a lemon, 9p (84p/bag of 5) 1 garlic clove, 3p (46p/2 bulbs avg 8 cloves...
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School Dinner Days Jam Sponge, 23p
School Dinner Jam Sponge, 90p for 4 at 23p each. Ingredients:* 100g self raising flour, 4p (65p/1.5kg) 70g butter, 34p (£1.20/250g) 2 eggs, 44p (£2.65/12 free range) 50g sugar, 5p (89p/kg) 4 heaped...
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Courgette, Tomato & Brie Gratin
This dish was born of a sad-looking courgette in my fridge, half of a very large onion that was starting to dry out, and some bits and pieces from my cupboard. The rice makes this filling and...
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Courgette, Sultana & Lemon Bread
Courgettes give off quite a bit of liquid when you grate them but don’t worry about draining it off in this recipe because the courgettey water will help to flavour the bread and add moisture. when you...
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Penny Pizzas
I make penny pizzas as way of using up leftovers such as Mamma Jack’s Best Ever Chilli or Lentil Bolognese – but they are just as good topped with a dollop of tomato purée and some grated cheese. Or...
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Sunshine Bread (Carrot, Pineapple & Sultana Loaf)
The quantity given for the tin of pineapple chunks is approximate. Some tins are 200g, some are 227g, so don’t worry about weighing and measuring – just throw about half the tin in! you can put the...
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