50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

boredofbeingathome

HI Weezl and everyone else.
Just forgot to add good luck with pigs head..i like the trotters idea and like ISOM, have watched the lovely Hugh work wonders with the bits..so will be watching with interest. Will post up menu later as very tired at the moment and needed to catch up with diaries and this thread.which is always at the top of the subscribed list..yeahay!

Plum_Pie

phizzimum wrote: »

any other mackerel recipes out there?

I've been rereading a collection of Jennifer Patterson's (she of 2 Fat Ladies) columns for the Oldie and she recommends using mackerel to make poor man's gravadlax (which properly needs salmon). I don't have the book on me now, (which doesn’t matter because 2FL recipes rarely work IME!) but found something quick and similar on the Telegraph website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml?&xml=/wine/2006/03/11/edtom11.xml&page=1#1 AFAIK, you can also freeze gravadlax.

2 tasty Nigel Slater ones: http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2275566,00.html

phizzimum

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Phizzimum, your DD sounds very cute. Please tell her that 'the 50p lady sends a big hello '


Love Weezl x[/quote]


Thanks for that lovely mesige. :p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p




(la petite frugalite wanted to post her own message...we stopped on way home from school and picked a few nettles, just made a little bit of pesto as an experiment. everyone tried it and liked it! even DD9 who is a LOT more cynical than her little sister and not so open to try new things. she was a bit worried her school friends would see me foraging, but as long as she is willing to eat the results that's ok with me)

phizzimum

Plum_Pie wrote: »

2 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml?&xml=/wine/2006/03/11/edtom11.xml&page=1#1

2 tasty Nigel Slater ones: http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2275566,00.html

thank you so much plumpie - had a quick look at those recipes and they look great. it will vary the menu a bit too, don't want to get sick of mackerel by serving it in the same way. we all love gravadlax (especially DD9 who has very expensive tastes) so that should prove popular too!

shaz_mum_of__2

Re the mackerel its nice with gooseberry sauce and they are in season at the mo also rhubarb needs the tartness to cut through the oiliness

Shaz

Dashing off to swimming lessons

had a yummy tea of tomato and bacon couscous first

Money_saving_Diva_2

Wow I am so impressed! Like many others I will be reading and following your journey and trying a few of the tips myself though not sure my OH would approve of giving up all his luxury items!! I am off to find your original thread now!

weezl74

money saving diva, Hello and welcome and thanks for the compliment :D

phizzimum's DD stiking out tongues huh?! :p:p:p:p:p:p:p :D:D:D:D:D:rotfl::rotfl:look I'm doing it back!

shaz, the tomato and bacon couscous, that sounds good! Is it frugal? Wanna post a recipe?

lesley gaye, I'm very impressed you got all that salad from a square metre! I wonder if i'm doing it wrong!? I've got a suttons seeds californian salad (about 4cm high at the mo and needs thinning!) rocket about 1 cm tall and perpetual spinach, about 3cm tall, all in a raised bed roughly a metre squared. I'm going to do another sowing now 3 and a half weeks on, in the gappy bits where nothing came up. How does that sound?

CarrieB, great recipe, thank you! I shall index it tomorrow!

janejustjane, thanks loads! Erm, bristles in the nose eh? No wonder acetate monkey won't touch it. It probably feels like cannibalism!!:rotfl:

I'm going to have lentil and bacon casserole with rice and Mr Weezl is having chickpea curry and rice. (we just fancied different things and it's as easy to warm up two tubs as one!)

cw18

I've cheated for tonight's meal. Called in at our 'local' freezer centre today (I say local, but it's a 3+ mile round trip -- but I'm having to walk up to the Tesco that's just round the corner every day for the next few weeks to get the Daily Mail with the DVD) and they had some ready made 'Somerset Pork Casserole Pub Grub' at £1.20 for 2 servings

so I got 4 of those, and they're in the oven as I type. Should be ready in about 20 mins

At 60p each they're less than my monthly average so far, so I didn't feel tooooo guilt buying them so that I could have a day off cooking

In_Search_Of_Me

Good to see that people are doing so well. WOnder what the ready meals will taste like cw after all that home cooking? I remember the last time I had a ready meal having cooked for a while..can relate to not wanting to cook though & fancying a change.
New SW mag is out so hope to post some yummy, cheap recipes. Advantage of strike is that I can catch up on stuff even if not being paid!

cw18

younger son has asked where the pork is (not a lot, but it's there), and it's a tad salty for me -- plus not a lot of meal altogether. but still not bad to get a night off cooking from scratch