Put away your purse & become debt-averse

QueenJess

Let me help as I copied it into my notes to try.  This was the original post:

Oh before I start, you'll need a heavy bottomed pan as they are cooked on the hob. I use a nonstick ridge pan, but have also successfully made in a normal frying pan. I like the ridges though!

You will need:

400g self-raising flour

2 tsp baking powder

2 good-sized garlic cloves

250g low fat plain yoghurt (see note below!)

1 tsp salt

a few grinds of black pepper

c.100ml cold water

Crush the garlic into the yoghurt & stir to distribute.

Sieve the flour, baking powder, salt & pepper into a bowl. Add the yoghurt/garlic & stir to combine, adding the water to create a slightly soft ball of dough. Turn it out onto a floured board & cut it into 8 equal sized pieces. Get your griddle pan pre-heating. It does need to be hot! If it's non-stick, you shouldn't need any oil. My best flat breads are when I don't use any oil at all, but depending on your type of pan, you may need a wipe of oil if they look to be sticking. On a ridge pan, they don't stick at all.

Roll each piece into a rough oval shape (think pitta bread shape/size). Cook in a factory assemblage style......get that first one onto the griddle, while you start rolling out the rest, etc. They only need 2 or 3 mins per side, so when the flat bread is starting to puff up, lift to have a look if it is cooked underneath, then flip it over. Wrap them in a tea towel when cooked to keep them warm while you do the rest. They freeze really well, if there are any left over once your hungry 6-footer has been!

Note re the yoghurt: This is a great way to use up yoghurt which has been sitting around in the fridge doing sweet b*gger all. The recipe works best with yoghurt, but if you don't have any, but you have some surplus or soon to be past its best milk, you can use that if you add a big squeeze of lemon juice an hour or so in advance to sour it up. In my experience this does make a dough which is softer & harder to handle but it's perfectly doable. the last batch I made recently, I didn't have quite enough leftover yoghurt, so I soured a small amount of milk with lemon to make up the difference.

Hazelnutty

Thanks so much!!

Pixiehouse55

Helloo Mrs Foxgloves and Gang.  Sorry not been around. i will go back, read and catch up. Well...... we've had our house valued and very surprised!! It's going on the market next week. He said our house will sale quickly... they all do here within days of going up for sale. But can take 12 and more at the moment to go through. Busy busy selling all the furniture/tools and craft stash asee won't need it. I do pop on and check what you are all up to. The days are dragging now, we just want to start our life living on the canals.. I will be back when I can to  catch up. Take care everyone and keep yourself safe X 

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

QueenJess - thank you for reposting the recipe; i have saved it as "Foxgloves Garlic Flatbreads"  which it will known as forevermore Chez Deni

foxgloves

@Pixiehouse55 - Don't worry, we know you are busy preparing to sell up & start your new life. It sounds so exciting! Whenever I see a canal boat in saiI shall wonder if it's yours!
F x

foxgloves

Oh, you have made me laugh - the thought of all that flatbread dough being divvied up all across the country, slapped around, rolled out & plonked on various griddles! Coincidentally, I took two out of the freezer tonight to serve with a curry. They do come in useful, for sure.
F x

foxgloves

Hello Frugal diary friends,
I've had another little 'find' in my desk drawer! But first things first. Today's money saving activity has been very much on the domestic front..... although we all know there are heaps of small economies to be made there. I managed to get 3 loads of laundry dry outside for free.... despite several showers. Watered greenhouse veg. Checked everything else & picked mint, coriander, strawberries & 4 courgettes. Made a nice beef bhuna using chunks of leftover beef from when we last had a roasting joint. Didn't even bother with rice as had fished aforementioned garlic flatbreads out of freezer to save myself a job. 
Started a major 'use it up' campaign in my bathroom cabinet. I don't usually have all these bits & blobs of things hanging around. They will be used up before I open any new products. Started as I mean to go on with a half pack of hair colour by wacking it onto my yukky roots! 
Now this little find in my desk drawer. £80 in crisp new notes, no less! It's a bit of a saga...... actually, it's to do with the 🐸 swallowing.... that wretched 🐸 which wouldn't stay down. I no longer require this cash to solve the issue so I am going to decide what best to do with it. I should probably return it to our Home Improvements Fund, from whence it reluctantly came. 
Ah well, knitting time, m'dears. 
F x

Pixiehouse55

foxgloves said:

@Pixiehouse55 - Don't worry, we know you are busy preparing to sell up & start your new life. It sounds so exciting! Whenever I see a canal boat in saiI shall wonder if it's yours!
F x

I will still pop on here to read your Diary Mrs Foxgloves and perhaps a pic on here of our Narrowboat.ive started a blog with the build up to getting our boat,  will write on it where we are etc. Lots of friends on social media that we've got friendly with and will hopefully meet up.... Ive just popped on for 5 mins and seen your message. Once we have the name on our boat I will let you know then you can look out for us😊. Pay day yesterday. Ive done the budget for the month. Going to have a read and catch up with you all now x 

Sun_Addict

Great news on the £80 find 👍 I love how Mr F is on board with the money saving, a lot of blokes aren’t unfortunately. 

BalanceBy50

foxgloves said:

Hi @BalanceBy50 - There is no need to re-buy geraniums every year. I think new gardeners may assume this because geraniums are often displayed with all the summer bedding plants in garden centres. I've had most of mine for years. OK, so if you have bought a few for this summer, all you need to do at the end of the season, is tidy them up (i.e cut off dead bits, anything that's a bit straggly or past its best) then re-pot them. Bring them indoors - mine go on the windowsill in our conservatory (unheated unless we are in there) - & this bit is important....do it before the first frosts, so for us that is the end of September to be on the safe side, as we can sometimes get a cold night early October. They need a bit of water over the winter, but not too much. If any start looking proper ropey then I cut them back to much shorter stems. Most of mine put out a few flowers over the winter period, which is nice for a bit of indoor colour. In Spring, I start giving them a bit more water plus some general houseplant food as they start into new season growth. I start standing them outside on sunny days in April & then plant them out properly in May. 
Another money saving way with geraniums.....well, there's cuttings, obviously, but also try this.......at the end of Aug when garden centres are thinking about twinkly lights & baubles rather than summer colour, check out their 'plant hospital' shelf. I found a fab geranium on there a while back which looked very bushy for one plant. Paid my £1 for it, then tipped it out when I got home & as suspected, there were 3 plants in there! Potted them up as individuals & the spare two provided free gifts for my sister & best friend.
Hope this is helpful,
F 

Just catching up -/thank you so much for this reply xx