It is Chinese New Year today – Year of the Dragon which I am taking as very auspicious. So much so that we are going to Chinatown for dinner. I have decided to have a bit more fun this year so Chinatown here we come! Monday – lovely noodles in Chinatown Tuesday – Chili [...]
This is an odd week, I worked yesterday which makes today my Sunday. I feel a bit discombobulated but am happy to have a day to get stuff done without any social stuff interfering. Last week I posted a menu with Gingered roast chicken with nectarines but I could not find a recipe to give you [...]
Summer is officially at an end with Labor Day and the Bank Holiday, here in the UK, being over so it is back to business at Lean Times HQ. I have lots a cool, exciting posts planned for you, my lovely readers, so stay tuned. The other big news is I will be blogging over at [...]
The week we will be eating mostly out of the freezer. I was made redundant last week and it is going to be a Lean but tasty week. The photo of the full fridge is a positive image for prosperity. Monday – Slow cooker chili made last week with jalepeno corn muffins. Tuesday – Pollock [...]
Once again I am hit with web hosting problems so be kind about the messiness of this post. I am hoping to change providers very soon but of course everything was fine until I paid a year in advance. The Lean person in me is having a problem paying another provider and losing almost a [...]
I have planned my cooking this week thinking that it would be warm. Chilled soup in rainy cold weather is just not the ideal. Fingers crossed that the weather works with my menu but if not, with a few tweaks I can do some changes. Monday – Oven-fried Sriracha chicken with new potato salad – [...]
Over the weekend, my beloved and I have decided to try to go on holiday so we are going to need to do a bit more belt tightening. I know we are not supposed to even think about a holiday when we are trying to pay off debts but since we have not been away [...]
This has been a bit of a tough time in the life of The Lean Times – I have been having trouble with my service provider and this is the first time I have been able to post in the past week. I am hoping that it is an onwards and upwards situation after many [...]
This has been a challenging weekend – my website service provider is having trouble which is impacting on my website, which is why I have not posted my Wednesday post. I was worried that it would be lost in the ether. Monday – Panko Shrimp Cakes with Sriracha Aioli – frozen shrimp are half price [...]
Things over here at chez Lean Times have been a bit nuts this week. There has been good stuff- my beloved has moved in and bad stuff – not getting paid by self important clod of an employer which made the grocery budget very lean indeed. As I wrote in a post last week, Stock [...]
After writing about Stockpilling last week, I am doing a bit of inventory control on the cupboards and the freezer. I also have a huge amount of parsley in the garden which needs to be used to make room for new plants. Monday – Lemon and rosemary marinated chicken thighs with new potatoes and broccoli. [...]
I had a doh/aha moment this weekend; two days a week I work quite late which means dinner doesn’t get served until almost nine o’clock sometimes, which just is not good enough. I plan our meals but don’t always stick to the exact days but move the menu around to suit what I feel like [...]