Middle Eastern Lentil Soup
Warming Middle Eastern Soup which can be spiced up a bit with some chilli flakes if you wish
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Warming Middle Eastern Soup which can be spiced up a bit with some chilli flakes if you wish
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Today I fancied doing some old-style cooking, things I love eating but not always in the mood to make. I often make pastry with oil but decided to return to lard and butter for these today in the true “old-style” theme. I tend to use what I have available rather than setting firm ideas about
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This makes a good lunch or supper dish and is a great way of using up meat and vegetable oddments you have lurking in your fridge.Feel free to swap ingredients to suit what you have available. If you wish to make a Vegetarian version just swap the bacon for a vegetarian food of your choiceIf
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This is the Cheeze I make: Thanks to Jayelle Bowen for finding it and tweaking it. I’ve tweaked her recipe a lot for my own taste but there are some Cardinal rules to keep to if you want it to turn out a success. It has to be gluten-free flour You have to use coconut
I’ve just made up a bowl of coleslaw minus the mayo. If you add the mayo only as you need it, by putting just some of it into a small bowl it will keep better. If it doesn’t get eaten, you can make soup with the ingredients instead. Ingredients approx 1/5 of a white cabbage
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Quick and easy to make and super cheap. Great with a salad, chips or on their own as a snack. You could even have one for breakfast. If you buy Aldi stuffing or a larger box, you can cover 4 eggs. The smaller packets such as Asda or Sainsbury’s will cover 3 eggs. Alternatively, make
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This lovely Gala pie is made easy and you can vary the ingredients as you wish. Add stuffing mix in with pork mince or sausage meat, sage, chopped onion, herbs and spices as you wish-the variations are many.You can make this from Lorne Sausage-frozen item or you can skin some sausages. Ingredients 110g lard 280ml
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Making the most of my oven so I made fairy cakes. We are not great cake eaters in this house so it is mainly for me. I will freeze some. I’ve adapted this recipe to my own liking as I don’t like things too sweet. Ingredients 125g butter/marge/spread. I used Dairy free one from Home
I’m making bread and butter pudding now with leftover dry bread. The loaf was only 10p and I’ve used under half of it. about 4p. 3 eggs were gifted to me a while ago-out of date but passed the water test. Ingredients About 8 slices of bread 3 eggs beaten 1 and a half pints
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Ingredients 6 oz baking margarine 6 oz granulated sugar 2 eggs 6 oz SR flour 2 teaspoons baking powder whipped cream and jam, if desired Method Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5 Cream together margarine and sugar. I soften mine in the microwave. Sift flour (for a better result) and beat eggs. Add the eggs
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