Potato pancakes

We had mashed potato with our tea the other night, and I deliberately made too much, thinking that I could whip up a batch of gnocchi for tea the next day. But thenI stumbled across a recipe for potato pancakes, in a free mini mag that came with our Good Food magazine, and decided we had … Continue reading →

Waste Not Want Not-leftover risotto

I was asked to contribute some of my thoughts on food waste recently by a very lovely called Bibi. In amongst our e-mail correspondence we ended exchanging our favourite zero-waste recipes. I sent Bibi the link to my Dead Bread recipe, and Bibi sent me a fabulous recipe for Baked Rice, from an Italian Vegetarian … Continue reading →

Love Your Leftovers….

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 →

The Big Lunch Resourceful Week #2

Day 2 of the Big Lunch Resourceful Week. Today the focus is food, and the day is jam-packed (get it!) with ideas for Resourceful Munching at your Big Lunch (and any other time too…) The Big Lunch Blog, and the Start blog both have some fantastic tips, and a recipe a piece from the once … Continue reading →

Dead Bread

I have posted couple of times about the great Live Better site from the Guardian. Last month was all about food waste, and the challenge was to go a whole week without producing any food waste. Now, I think we are pretty hot on food waste. I take a perverse pride in using up all … Continue reading →

Christmas 2013-the post-match analysis

Ooooh, this is a bit like Match of the Day. Only without Gary Linekar. Or any football…. OK, so is today Twelfth Night, or was it yesterday? I can never work it out. But whatever, I hope you have de-decked your halls, and removed the holly (and the tree and the fairy lights). If you … Continue reading →

My W.I debut..! And another T-shirt Upcycle

Last night I had my debut W.I talk, thanks to the lovely ladies at Potterne Springs W.I. They held a “Small Ideas, Big Changes” evening, that they threw open to the wider community as a free event, and it was an inspired idea that seemed to go down really well with everyone who attended. As … Continue reading →

Cake Balls!

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 →

World Environment Day

Did you know, that today, June 5th, is World Environment Day?  And it has been since 1972. I had no idea. I am not sure whether this is my fault for not keeping up to speed with current affairs, or the collective ‘medias’ fault for not bringing it to the attention of the wider populace. … Continue reading →

Dead Cake Pudding

Did I mention that bubby has started baking? Well he has. And for some reason, some of things he is baking are ending up very a little on the dry side… So I have been coming up with innovative ways of making sure they get eaten! The latest one was a Passionfruit Slice. Which sounds … Continue reading →