leftover milk

  (not quite sure why the photo turned itself horizontal – sorry). We quite often have leftover milk – neither P nor I have milk in tea or coffee, so it’s quite easy for us to not manage to use it up before it turns. But still, there’s always something to do with it, even…

a sort of chickpea fusion stew

[Apologies: I really meant to take a photo of this, but now we’ve scoffed most of it] As I’ve written before, I love pulses. I try to use dried ones, because they’re so much cheaper, and they cook up beautifully in the slow cooker, without filling the kitchen with steam or having to be watched…

a frittata

A frittata is a great way to use up bits and pieces. As I had quite a few bits and pieces to use up, that’s what I made 🙂 There were some leftover cooked veg – cauli and broccoli, and some new potatoes – left over from when we served the chickie! pie. Some tired…

a chicken pie and a raspberry cake

I’ve written before about everlasting chicken. We don’t throw any of it away, except the bones, and then only when they’ve been boiled up for soup. I sometimes put the last bits of the meat into a pie filling, and bung that in the freezer, and when we had a friend coming for supper the…