Category: Frugal food

• Saving energy in the kitchen when bread and pasta making

  

  A few simple and sensible ideas to help when cooking bread and pasta to manage energy or maximise use of your oven/hob. A quick, low energy pasta recipe included.

  Ink Sugar Spice

  September 2, 2022

  Food, Frugal food, Italian, Kitchen tips & food advice

  energy crisis, energy saving, frugal, hob, ideas, low cost, money, oven

• Pickled baby peppers

  

  Pickled baby bell peppers (peppardews) and cream cheese stuffed peppers.. Make the most of a glut of veggies from your garden or greenhouse

  Ink Sugar Spice

  September 29, 2020

  Autumn, Food, Frugal food, Preserves & creams, Sides, Vegetarian

  baby peppers, cheese stuffed, peppers, pickles

• Egg pasta dough – pasta all’uovo

  

  Full instructions and images for egg pasta dough, plus some hints and tips including being frugal/replacement ingredients for lockdown cooking

  Ink Sugar Spice

  May 17, 2020

  Food, Frugal food, Italian, Kitchen tips & food advice, Pasta, Pasta information, Techniques

  egg pasta, formula, instructions, lockdown cooking, method, Pasta, pasta making, recipe

• A week in the life of a loaf

  

  A week in the life of a loaf -how to make the most of your bread day by day (whether you’ve made or bought it) plus some additional ideas

  Ink Sugar Spice

  April 16, 2020

  Baking, Bread, Bread information, Food, Frugal food, Ingredient information, Kitchen tips & food advice, Lunch

  a day in the life, a week, breadcrumbs, bruschetta, cheese on toast, covid-19, croutons, frugal, ideas, lockdown cooking, melba toast, pandemic, seven days, waste not

• Store cupboard pineapple upside down cake

  

  A store cupboard staple – use up a tin of pineapple and swap butter for olive oil to make this lovely pineapple upside down cake

  Ink Sugar Spice

  April 9, 2020

  British, Cakes, Food, Frugal food, Fruit, Kitchen tips & food advice

  Filippo Berio, lockdown baking, olive oil, pantry, pineapple, store cupboard, tinned fruit