Foods like lemon and honey, tomato and basil, Nutella and peanut butter are all perfect flavour combinations. I wouldn't have put ham and Coca Cola on my list of favourite food combinations at all - until last night when we had slow cooked Coca Cola ham.My version of coca cola ham is a much simplified version of the Nigella ham in coke recipe as it doesn't have any fancy stuff in it ;-)It really couldn't be easier to make and the results are delicious.I always bring my ham joint to the boil in a pan for five minutes to get rid of any excess salt but I know lots of people … [Read more...]
Why you should use your slow cooker more often….
Convenience - This morning, like most mornings, I had to have both the kids and myself ready to leave the house by half past seven in order to get them to breakfast club so I could get to work on time. After school, I picked up one child, came home for half an hour and then went back to pick up the other one. I then picked up Mr Frugal from work and we came home, all hungry and ready for tea. I had tea on the table in about ten minutes because I'd taken two minutes (literally that long) to add a couple of handfuls of frozen onions, a packet of mince, some water and stick cubes to the slow … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Leftover Frittata….
I've posted this week's meal plan over at Meal Planning Made Easy but for those of you who haven't ventured over there yet or don't meal plan, I wanted to share a recipe that I posted on there over the weekend. It's for a frittata made using whatever you have in the bottom of your fridge that needs using up and uses the slow cooker which means it's super easy to make....As far as the recipe goes, there isn't actually one because it depends what you have in to use up but I can tell you the recipe for the version that I just made and you can adapt it as you want/need to....3 (ish) cold … [Read more...]
This week’s meal plan – the one where I have a week off….
You might think that because I have a week off work, I'm going to try out some new and exciting recipes and spend more time in the kitchen preparing our meals.But you'd be wrong ;-)I plan to put as little effort as possible into everything this week as I'm going to be mostly sitting on my settee with a cuppa watching daytime TV and having as many Nana-naps as I can squeeze in while the kids are at school.So his week's meal plan will be brought to you with the magic of my trusty slow cooker and will involve little or no imagination, creativity of effort.... MondaySlow cooked … [Read more...]
This week’s mini meal plan and my recipe for slow cooker chilli….
As of Friday afternoon, Mr Frugal and I have a week off work together. It's actually the week we booked in so we could have a week's family holiday and we were intending to take the kids out of school and go away for a week somewhere nice and warm.But then the rules changed and we can't take them out of school for the full week so we're just going to have a nice weekend away this weekend starting as soon as they finish school on Friday. We haven't decided yet what we're doing or where we're going but we definitely doing something!So our meal plan is only Monday to Thursday this week … [Read more...]
What we’re eating this week….
It's ridiculous how fast time is flying by at the moment isn't it?I'm sat here writing our meal plan and shopping list but it seems like only five minutes ago that I was writing last weeks! I'm still really tired but now I have a cold too so this week's plan is going to be almost as lazy as last week's was I'm afraid with comfort food all the way.... MondayRoasted veggies but I'll add some chicken or sausages to it I think and any leftovers will be added to cous cous for lunch the next day. TuesdayToad in the hole WednesdayBarbecue pulled pork ThursdayI'm not sure … [Read more...]
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