Budget eating is big. There are entire blogs devoted to feeding yourself on a shoestring. And today I’m going to join in, because I came up with quite a good wheeze involving the Marks & Spencer ‘two-salads-for-£3 deal’. It’s quite simple. One for lunch and the other one as the base of your evening meal. [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Budget food
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks, tagged bacon, budget, cheap, creme fraiche, edamame, edamame pasta, M&S salad, Marks & spencer salad, pasta, saving money, two salads for £3 on February 28, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Date and apricot slices
Posted in Sweet Snacks, tagged crumble, date and apricot slices, dates, dried apricots, healthy snack, nutritious snack, porridge oats, rachel smith, recipe, something to go with an afternoon cup of tea, sweet, sweet snack on February 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I’m not a big fan of cupcakes. They taste of sweetness. With a lingering aftertaste of guilt. I’d take cheese over chocolate, and a sausage roll over sweeties. So if I am going to have a little afternoon nibble of something with a cup of tea, then this is my favourite kind of snack - [...]
Food For Ill People
Posted in Light Lunch, Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged Austro Hungarian, burst appendix, butter, cinnamon, Czech, family recipe, gries schmarn, ill, ill-person's-food, milk, recovery, semolina, sick, sultana on February 23, 2012 | 10 Comments »
I think my appendix could be about to burst. Or something chronic. I’ve tried to go to the doctors, but I can’t get an appointment until next Wednesday evening. I might be dead by then. The only small comfort is that I could be hailed as a martyr for the NHS. Probably not though. When [...]
Lamb Rogan Josh
Posted in Maincourses, tagged authentic, chilli, garam masala, garlic, ginger, ground coriander, ground cumin, India, lamb, onion, rogan josh, Sharwoods, Sharwoods advert, tinned tomatoes on February 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I love the new Sharwoods advert. But it does confirm something I’ve always suspected—that the curry sauces on supermarket shelves aren’t meant to taste of India. As the ‘SHAR1’ bus trundles the length of the country-past forests, across rivers along terraced houses, the gentle northern voiceover reminds us of the Sharwood’s tag line: ‘Great British [...]