I’m back! All Christmas’d out and raring to go…. How was your Christmas? Ours was lovely, I hope yours was too 🙂 Now, obviously you lot are a canny bunch and will have cooked exactly the right amount of food so that are no leftovers, and we have all achieved zero food waste over the … Continue reading
Hubby discovered a great new app last week, that I am hoping will help to make we are always able to use up every last scrap of the veg we buy each week. We got a weekly Veg Box from Riverford. Which is brilliant, and the quality is fab, and the veg is delicious. But … Continue reading
This is another post that got lost in the big Drafts file. You can tell by all the references to Easter… But I am on a mission to get ahead with the blog so I can have a screen-free week away with the family (more on this to come!) so I’m not going to look … Continue reading
This one somehow slipped through the net-I wrote it ages ago and then promptly forgot about it and it has been sat in my Drafts file for months now…! But in the spirit of Waste Not, Want Not, I am not going to ‘waste’ a blog post, so here goes… The last post for now … Continue reading
Flushed with the success of my ‘Dead Things and Custard’, we moved up a gear and had Dead Things Tart Tartin the other day, which I think sounds very posh indeed..! I was very pleased with myself having made ‘rough puff’ to top a cheesy pie, but had half left, sat in the fridge getting … Continue reading
I went out the other evening (shocking I know-nothing very exciting unfortunately-a pre-school committee meeting..) and I came back to the delicious smell of baking! Hubby had been baking! Which is lovely. He made cake AND biscuits. Lovely. Exceptthecakewasabitdry. Andpossiblythebiscuitstoo. There I said it. Very quickly, but I said it. Really don’t want to discourage … Continue reading
It might be the end of the Waste Watcher’s campaign, but it certainly doesn’t mean the end of (banging on about) Waste Watching….! You may have forgotten about my little Waste not, want not series, as it’s been a while since I posted on it, but things have been kind of busy, and in order … Continue reading
The third in my little post about how can we all make small changes to help stop food waste. (This is the original post here, and then there was omelettes/frittatas, and soup!) This time, it is the turn of…. Risotto I know everyone says making risotto is a faff. But I will let you into … Continue reading
I LOVE our freezers. That’s right-plural…! We have 3 drawers underneath the fridge in the kitchen, and then someone gave us their old freezer when we moved, so we have two! Yay! They are both rammed full of all sorts of things, and I am a little obsessive about making things to freeze. To the … Continue reading
The 2nd in my little series of stop food waste posts, (original post here, and omlettes and frittatas here), and this time it is the classic that is …. Fridge Soup I am sure you are all well versed in the loveliness of fridge soup, indeed many (ok, one, at the moment) lovely readers, have … Continue reading
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