As soon as the weather starts getting colder, the way we eat definitely changes. I’m much less interested in salads and lighter meals and much more interested in proper comfort food – the kind of dinners that warm you up, fill everyone up and ideally leave enough leftovers for lunch the next day too.I’ve been thinking about the meals we’ll be eating over the next few months and there are definitely a few old favourites that are going to be appearing on our meal plan quite regularly. Mince and dumplings Mince and dumplings is probably one of the ultimate cold weather dinners for me. … [Read more...]
Basic Quiche Recipe – perfect for using up leftovers….
My basic quiche recipe is one that I learned from my Mam years ago. I always used to look forward to her baking days because they were wonderfully predictable. There would almost always be a quiche, a corned beef pie and a cake chosen from her well-thumbed Be-Ro cookbook.I can still picture her standing in the kitchen with that cookbook open on the worktop, deciding which cake to make while the quiche and corned beef pie were already well underway. Looking back, I think those baking days are probably the reason I still love making simple, homemade food now. They're some of my happiest … [Read more...]
I Got a Pie Maker for Free… Sort Of…
One of my friends popped round for a catch up a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time they'd been since we moved house so they got the obligatory tour of the house, ending in the kitchen where we put the kettle on and chatted while we waited for it to boil. She spotted a couple of my kitchen gadgets which got us talking about some of the random gadgets we both own and as we chatted, we both realised that we had a stack of kitchen gadgets each in our kitchens - some of which we use all the time and some are just gathering dust at the back of the cupboards. Somewhere in the … [Read more...]
Eight ways to use up Leftover Rice {Safely}…
I’ve got another post to share today from my Love Your Leftovers series and this time it’s all about using up leftover rice. It’s such a flexible ingredient and there are so many easy ways to turn it into a whole new meal. 😊Rice is one of those brilliant ingredients that can stretch into so many quick meals with hardly any effort at all. It bulks things out beautifully, works with almost anything you’ve already got in the fridge and can be turned into a whole new dish in minutes. Whether you’ve accidentally cooked too much (this is me every time 😂) or you’ve got a bowl left … [Read more...]
Eight ways to use up Yorkshire Puddings {and my tried and true recipe}….
I’ve got another post to share today from my Love Your Leftovers series and this one isn't one that I planned when I first wrote a list of foods that I was going to feature in this series. I got a message a couple of weeks ago asking if I could do Yorkshire Puddings and I admit, my first thought was 'Why?' - we never have a leftover Yorkshire Pudding in this house. 😁 But I have been batch cooking my Yorkshires over the last few months so I thought I'd give it a go as I have plenty in the freezer. As I say, leftover Yorkshire puddings don’t happen often in this house, … [Read more...]
Eight ways to use up Mashed Potato…
I've got another post to share today from my Love your Leftovers series of posts and this week, it's all about how to use up mashed potatoes!I don't know what it is about mash but I seem to have an inability to guesstimate and actually make the right amount of mashed potato whenever I make it. In the past, I've under-estimated how much we would eat and made too little so now I tend to go too far the other way but I'm not entirely mad about it because I've found so many ways to make the post of any that we have leftover. Mashed potato is so versatile, so budget friendly and so easy … [Read more...]
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