It was my birthday yesterday and I had a lovely day, starting with being woken up at seven o clock with a big kiss from Master Frugal, 'Happy Valentines Day Mummy'. The he proceeded to paper cut me to death by waving my card all over until I sat up to open it.The kids both made me lovely cards and bought me the Michael Buble CD and Mr Frugal is going to take me shopping at the weekend for my pressie off him.Mr Frugal even made me how own version of a frugal birthday cake.... He's not very domesticated so I'm actually very impressed that he didn't just go out and buy a ready made … [Read more...]
Tea – Miss Frugal Style….
Last week Miss Frugal announced that she was ready to cook us a meal. At first, I wasn't quite sure whether this was a good idea or not but she wore me down and we agreed that she would cook spaghetti and meatballs - never let it be said that she doesn't aim high lol.I've never made meatballs before and I wasn't really sure what to put in them (apart from the meat bit obviously) so I googled for a recipe but there were so many variations that I gave up and decided to let her do what she wanted (obviously keeping the pizza menu to hand just in case).She squished together some … [Read more...]
Oven Baked Risotto: The Leftover Version….
It's ok - I'm not going to post a different version of the oven baked risotto recipe each week but I did want to share this one with you.Miss Frugal wanted risotto for tea but I didn't have any onion or chicken is so we decided to make a leftover version by frying some mushrooms and leeks with some leftover sausages and sticking that in the casserole dish with the rice and chicken stock. I didn't even have any garlic so I had to use Garlic salt!I cooked it in the oven until all the stock was absorbed into the rice and then I stirred some creme fraiche into it.... Et Voila, gorgeous … [Read more...]
The Barbecue Chicken Experiment….
Due to the boringness of my weekly meal plans, I set myself a bit of a meal plan challenge last week which involved me cooking a different meal each night. Thursday's new meal was barbecue chicken but Mr Frugal and I disagreed on how to make it so we ended up making two different versions and having a bit of a taste test at the end....My version was a chicken breast with barbecue sauce spread on top, wrapped in bacon and sprinkled with cheese:Mr Frugal's was a typical man mess:He wrapped his chicken in bacon and poured barbecue sauce all over it before … [Read more...]
How not to cook Chicken Quesadillas….
I've really enjoyed my week off work cooking meals that I wouldn't normally cook as part of my meal plan challenge. On the menu last night was chicken quesadillas:If you ask any of my family, they will say that I lovingly prepared the quesadillas with my own hands but I actually bought an Old el Paso Quesadilla kit from Tescos and made it while they were all playing on the wii. The kit came with the corn tortillas, the spice mix and tomato salsa, I just bought the chicken, cheese and sour cream. The instructions on the pack were really simple to follow and they were … [Read more...]
How many meals can I make using this?
I've just bought a bargain gammon joint from the Sainsburys Basics range. I have bought a few things from their basic range before and it's usually quite good so I have high hopes for my little gammon joint.It's starting it's food journey in the slow cooker where I plan to cook it to perfection (probably not knowing me lol). I'm going to use the stock to make a nice soup with dumplings for lunch tommorrow and I'll see if I can find some new ideas for recipes to use the ham for. I'll let you know what I find.I have a couple of recipes … [Read more...]
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