Lemon meringue pie. Pretty good. So glad I have a kitchen aid mixer now! 12 months ago

from Jamie’s Great Britain cookbook…. very simple, and very good! Also tried sweet potatoes for the first time. Hoping to make something out of every cookbook I have collected over the years, to justify keeping them all! 13 months ago

1) Pasta
2) Meatball subs 16 months ago

Popovers! Absolutely delicious and I made them in my new kitchenaid mixer. 16 months ago

Chocolate Chess Pie. 17 months ago

roast vegetables…. it seems simple enough and I have all the ingredients, plus healthy and low fat….hope these turn out as well as the pre-prepared and very expensive ones I like from M & S! 18 months ago

low fat to go with the diet goal. Just need to get some baking soda and we are good to go. Will also have to ‘find’ the food processer I know I possess but have stashed away amid all the clutter in the spare bedroom. Hmmmm. 19 months ago

I learned the useful lesson that if I reduce the amount of fruit mentioned in a receipe I should remember to reduce the spices I add to the fruit in equal proportion…. so as to avoid making apple jam that smells like lemsip…... 19 months ago

and unfortunately I am right at the start of a serious attempt to lose weight….. Weightwatchers have a couple of recipe books, I think I will splash out on the cheaper of them. Not strictly sticking to my frugality goal, but maybe it counts as creativity?? If I don’t get this out of my system I will end up making something luscious and irrestible, and of course, eating it all! 23 months ago