Last week, I barely cooked at all, my very annoying sinus infection totally sidelined me, I went to work came home and crawled into my bed. This week, I am thankfully on the mend so I will be cooking between naps. Monday - Slow cooker red wine short ribs Tuesday -Mushroom ravioli with fresh tomato sauce [...]
A new addition to The Lean Times is Lean Reviews, where I will be reviewing books, apps and whatever else interesting that comes my way. For the premier Lean Reviews, I have chosen to review the new Jamie Oliver book, Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. This book has been very controversial in the UK, firstly because [...]
As I have probably mentioned before I live pretty much alone, my beloved comes over a few nights a week but is not asked to help me in running my flat. That would be unfair. A few years ago I had a wonderful flatmate and we used to cook for one another. It was such [...]
I must apologize to my regular readers, I have been ill which is why I have not put my usual Thursday post up. This is also why I missed my Saturday market shop, the first one I have missed ever.Now, I don’t have any fresh food in the flat which puts me in a bit of a [...]
As we are sliding into the chaos that is Christmas, I am trying to stay as organized as possible. Over the weekend, I wrote out a list for all the gifts we are giving so hopefully there will not be too many last minute panics. I am going to try to make our week night [...]
This week I am joining the fabulous Penny Golightly for Tenner Week. Which means I will be using the Living Social deal, I bought for my beloved’s birthday in August, clearing out the freezer and using up what we have so we don’t need to buy much. The slow cooker will be working a lot [...]
Months ago I wrote a post entitled Sexy Packed Lunches, now that Spring is here I thought we should revisit the brown bag brigade. Isn’t it depressing when you go to all the trouble to bring your lunch to work, and when lunchtime rolls around you don’t fancy what you have made? We have all [...]
This past weekend, I cooked up a storm in my attempt at being a lean, mean organizational machine. I made tons of chicken stock in the slow cooker, Israeli couscous salad for lunches and did some batch prep. I am determined not to let going back to work stop me from cooking. Watch this space [...]
Today started extremely well, I have a new job and all my trains worked but then disaster happened – our flat flooded. Luckily my beloved was there to try to sort it out so tonight will be all about cleaning up. Waitrose to the rescue – they are doing a third off their fresh ready [...]
I woke up feeling great this morning. You ask why? I did pretty much nothing over the weekend except my usual market shopping and inforced rest. I made myself take a break because the past two weeks have been super busy and very stressful. It is amazing how much better you feel if you take [...]
Last week ended up a bit of a car crash, it started out ok but by Wednesday it went totally off course. I ended up working a 16 hour day so I did not cook and was too tired to cook on Thursday. Luckily Waitrose Dine for £10 came to the rescue. This week looks [...]
We had a glorious summer like weekend and hopefully it will continue the rest of the week so summer food it is. I have been making lots of fresh salsa and plan to put it on everything except the roast chicken. Monday – Black beans with chorizo and yellow rice Tuesday – Roast chicken with [...]