Rachel Allen’s couscous salad
I do try to cook vegetarian meals occasionally and recently I’ve been thinking that perhaps we should have more meat-free meals in our diet. So, I’ve decided to make a…
Vegetarian & Vegan
Easy Chickpea & Carrot Curry
Here’s a recipe which appears on this weeks meal plan for Thursday night. Actually, due to an impromptu plan to eat out with friends at a new place in Loughborough,…
Leftover cheeseboard pie
This is basically a lot of odds and ends of cheese, some filo pastry, potato slices and onions, resulting in the most wonderful leftover cheese board pie. It’s most definitely…
Olive magazine 7 meals for £30 – Spinach and ricotta pizza blanco
Day 4 – over half way already! Time for something a bit different. Out of the 7 recipes for the week, this was probably the one we were least looking…
Smoky Black Bean Chilli Soup with Lime Yoghurt
I followed the Olive magazine 7 meals for £35 back in October (read it here) and since that time it has been my most popular post. This month, in the…
Spinach and rice Soup
One of my favourite and most used cookbooks is Family Meals for a Fiver (Good Housekeeping). I don’t know where I got it from, most likely somewhere cheap and cheerful…
Cream of Mushroom Soup
Its cold and wet, I want a nice warm bowl of homemade soup. I think soup is the easiest thing to make in the world. Unless you’re trying something fancy,…