-
Hi, my name is Annie!
As a busy working mum I'm always looking for ways to save time (and money) in the kitchen but still produce healthy home-cooked meals. Here you can read about my continuing attempts to make delicious quick - & cheap - meals in no time! (and a few other recipes too...).
Thanks for visiting.Keep in touch here.
Popular Posts
Category Archives: Student Cooking
Chicken Passanda
from Good Housekeeping A very tasty creamy, mildly spicy curry slightly adapted from a recipe from Good Housekeeping Money saving tip: Use chicken thighs rather than breast. Approximate cost: £2.62 for 2 (£1.31 each) (Prices are current from Sainsburys web-site … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Meals, Main Course, Quick Meals, Student Cooking
Comments Off on Chicken Passanda
Macaroni Cheese
Learning to cook can be hard! Especially if its every evening AND made more difficult by not wanting to spend much money. So over the next few weeks I’m hoping to post a number of easy, cheap and relatively quick … Continue reading
Posted in Student Cooking
Comments Off on Macaroni Cheese
No-cook Tomato and Feta Sauce
What can you cook for supper when your kitchen is covered in dust-sheets and there is sawdust everywhere? [Finally – having left it FAR too long – we have sanded down our lovely wooden kitchen worktops to re-oil them. So … Continue reading
Posted in Main Course, Quick Meals, Student Cooking
Tagged feta, No-cook, Pasta, Tomato
Comments Off on No-cook Tomato and Feta Sauce
Paprika Chicken with Feta
Entertaining on a weekday can make for some interesting challenges, can’t it? The ideal is a sumptuous meal (of course), prepared with minimum effort, in not very much time, which will deeply impress your guests. Or so we hope. This … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Meals, Main Course, Student Cooking
Tagged budget-friendly, cheese, Chicken, Tomato
Comments Off on Paprika Chicken with Feta
Chicken Kurma
This is one of our family standbys – simple, reasonably quick and not expensive. I’ve cooked it for years and it’s always popular – a good solid four star meal. So having packed Student Son off to Uni after a … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Meals, Main Course, Student Cooking
Tagged budget-friendly, Chicken, leftovers, less-than-£1-a-portion, quick budget recipes
Comments Off on Chicken Kurma
