A frittata is a great way to use up bits and pieces. As I had quite a few bits and pieces to use up, that’s what I made 🙂 There were some leftover cooked veg – cauli and broccoli, and some new potatoes – left over from when we served the chickie! pie. Some tired…
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Morrisons: a disappointment. And a blackberry cake
We try not to use big supermarkets much. My usual haunt is Aldi, but if I must go elsewhere, we generally do Morrisons. And there are some “treaty” things we get in Morrisons, so when Pete cycled off there on Saturday with trailer in tow (after the car debacle), he was going to get some….
what we ate at the weekend
Friday night:Â South Indian cabbage with basmati. One of our very favourite meals – cheap, quick, nutritious. Saturday: Breakfast was taken at Fudge, which is at the top of our road. We had been heading over for a walk along the Humber estuary at the Hessle foreshore, but the car (bless it’s little alloy wheels)…
it's really far too hot to cook
And so we’re not, really. Saturday was a stir fry – I found a small piece of frying steak in the freezer (I tend to buy four at a time, clingfilm them and freeze them individually). Added courgette, onion, red pepper, garlic and ginger. Marinated the steak, cut into thin strips, in cornflour, soy sauce,…
a bag of spinach
A bag of spinach is currently £1 in our local Sainsburys, and it’s remarkably versatile. Tonight, we shall be having half a bag with some mushroooms fried up in Indian spices, one of our stalwarts. The other half a bag was left over from the lasagne we had on Wednesday. Spinach is delicious thinly sliced…
spag bol
We have a friend coming over for supper tomorrow night, and he requested lasagne. Now, I’m not going to give you a recipe for spag bol sauce – everybody, pretty much, knows how to cook it, and knows their way is the best way. And anyhow, I never cook it the same twice running. We have no…
bit quiet here, sorry
But I can’t keep writing the same old stuff! Â Still, there should be some new stuff going on soon, as we are on A Mission. We have a 24 hour mini-Sainsburys, a fab butcher, and a wonderful Indian grocer all at the top of the street. We have a mega 24 hour Tesco (yes, I…
Mediterranean vegetables and lentils
I often make a Moroccan lentils sort of thing – lentils with ras al hangout spices, garlic and onions. Â I generally cook up a batch for the freezer, and they turn into a nice aubergine bake, or a lentil moussaka. I got a tub full out the other day to make the former, and then…
lovely veg
A new middle eastern grocer has opened up round the corner, so we went and had a look. I don’t know if they’ll always be as cheap, but they were doing three aubergine for £1, butternut squash at £0.75 each, and all manner of other stuff. So we bore loads home, including the aforementioned, plus…
a trip to the butcher
I am currently between treadmills – sold the old one (basic, no inclines, no programmes) and it was collected on Wednesday, and its replacement (whizzy!) is arriving this afternoon, ghods willing. And so, the horror, I have taken myself *outside* to the park for my constitutional the past couple of mornings. Yesterday it was -2C,…