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Thrifty Lesley Sep 1, 2024

Easy Green Tomato Pasta Sauce

This is a delicious sauce made with green tomatoes, lemon zest and blitzed with thick Greek yogurt. Wonderful on pasta…

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Thrifty Lesley Aug 23, 2024

Easy Red Lentil Nuggets / Patties / Fritters

Red lentils are packed full of protein, quick and easy to cook and very cheap to buy. So when I made this recipe, I…

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Thrifty Lesley Aug 23, 2024

Chicken & Onion Pie

A chicken & onion pie with delicious short pastry and a gorgeous filling, from a series on how to make a chicken last…

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Thrifty Lesley Aug 8, 2024

Tomato and basil curd

Primarily, I wanted to make a sandwich filler / toast topper, but savoury curd can be used with savoury scones, on…

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Thrifty Lesley Jul 25, 2024

Coronation chicken jacket potato

This Coronation chicken jacket potato recipe is part of a plan, starting the week with a whole poached chicken, to…

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Thrifty Lesley Jul 24, 2024

Red cabbage and Chicken Waldorf Salad

An easy and adaptable salad using the classic flavours of a Waldorf using meat from a whole poached chicken that could…

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Thrifty Lesley Jul 22, 2024

Old fashioned self saucing chocolate pudding. Quick and easy, no complicated method, and a mere 21p a serving

A super simple self saucing chocolate pudding, one of those ones that makes it own sauce. Very inexpensive at just 21p a…

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Thrifty Lesley Jul 19, 2024

Peperonata

Peperonata is one of those things that we have pretty often. It is a pepper and onion stew that goes with many things,…

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