I knew it was too good to be true. We managed almost a full week last week with not a cough, sneeze, ache or pain to be seen - until Saturday afternoon when poor Master Frugal announced he didn't feel very well and didn't feel like going out as we'd planned. He was shortly followed by his big sister and they spent the rest of the weekend snuggled in their pyjamas watching DVDs and playing board games. If it's anything like the last couple of times they've been ill since Christmas, they've got over the actual symptoms of the cold itself within a couple of days but they've had no energy … [Read more...]
The long awaited pulled pork recipe….
Learning to cook slow cooker pulled pork was one of my News Years Resolutions as we'd been dying to try it for ages. We saw a giant version on Man Vs Food (how on earth does he eat as much as he does) before Christmas and it looked delicious so we knew we wanted to try it but I thought it would be really complicated to make. Thanks to the magic of Google, I've found lots of different recipes and ways to make it - marinade this, rub that, cook in the smoker, add this spice and that spice. All of which I'm sure would be delicious but not my style at all as I like our meals to be quick and … [Read more...]
This week’s meal plan – the last stretch before payday….
We've got another busy week ahead of us this week and seeing as January pay day still hasn't arrived, I'll be buying as little as possible when I go shopping for this week. I try and make sure I always have plenty of what I call 'the essentials' in the cupboard - things like rice, pasta, tinned tomatoes, tinned tuna and stock cubes along with things like mince and chicken in the freezer because you can always make something if you have these in. But we're even starting to run low on these things and this week's meal plan will probably finish off my supplies so I'm looking forward to pay day … [Read more...]
Easy Coconut and Lime Marmalade muffins….
I like to bake every Sunday to make sure that we have enough treats for our packed lunches through the week. I usually make something like packed lunch cake or some sort of muffins using my tried and tested muffin recipe but today I had some coconut milk to use up so I decided to pair it with some lime marmalade that's been in my fridge for what seems like forever and make some lime and coconut muffins! You can use any marmalade or jam (and probably even chocolate spread or peanut butter with this recipe but you might need to substitute the coconut milk with normal milk depending on what … [Read more...]
What to do with your leftover Christmas chocolate….
If you're house is anything like ours, leftover chocolate is about as rare as left over wine for most of the year. But around this time every year (and again at Easter) we seem to have masses of it! Our favourite way to use up any leftover chocolate is to melt it all together in a bowl, add some plates of chopped fruit, some marshmallows and maybe some cookies and give everyone a kebab skewer (or a fork) and away you go. This is easily the easiest to make and funnest to eat (not a word I know) pudding that I know.... I don't like to brag but I *may* possibly have secured the Mother … [Read more...]
Chocolate Gingerbread Christmas trees….
We didn't get around to make a Gingerbread house this year which is a shame as we loved making last years but we did make something almost as good this morning - Chocolate Gingerbread Christmas trees! Miss Frugal had great fun making the biscuits and kneading the dough and then Master Frugal had even more fun icing them! They smell and taste delicious and would be great hung on the Christmas tree if only I'd remembered to poke little holes in the top before I cooked them. Chocolate Gingerbread Christmas trees 125g butter 85g brown sugar 1 egg yolk 4 tablespoons golden … [Read more...]
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