The Frugal Cook

The problem with leftovers is that they can easily look like exactly that but this crafty way with cooked ham - an anglicised version o...

One of the main things that stops me - and I guess you - being frugal is the tendency to use an ingredient for a single recipe then fail t...

Or, to be more accurate, leftover roasties given the patatas bravas treatment .... Here's how it came about. We roasted a chicken last n...

I've just spent the past week on a work trip in Alsace (I know, I know, alright for some ... ) and stopped the night on the way back at ...

I was reminded this week just how easy it is to make something delicious out of leftovers - and also how easy it is to forget the fundamenta...

I had to spend last week unexpectedly in France for a family funeral - hence the absence of posts - but we went out for the odd meal and I w...

The other day I roasted a mallard duck (which I'd found at a good price at our local butcher, I hasten to add). Mallards are quite small...

As time goes on I'm more and more convinced of the virtues of shopping as and when you need it rather than doing a big weekly shop. We...

We had the kind of lunch I love yesterday - a selection of little dishes created from assorted leftovers and the contents of the storecupbo...

As we were out to supper with friends last night and off to France tomorrow I deliberately didn't buy any food this weekend, reckoning ...

I had a bit of a shock yesterday afternoon when I remembered that the stock I was making from Thursday's leftover chicken carcass was st...

Some of the best recipes - if you can call this a recipe - happen by accident. I was cooking up some Bramley apples yesterday for our mornin...

I did a thorough blitz of the fridge this morning to find out what needed finishing up and what was beyond redemption (a turkey liver, and s...

There is a large half-eaten turkey sitting in the shower. Why? Because it won't fit in the fridge, the kitchen is too warm and anywhere...

Off to visit my mother-in-law in France this week so we spent the weekend using up odds and ends from the fridge and freezer. On Saturday n...

It's a sign of the disfavour into which French food has fallen that we'd rather talk about frittatas than omelettes these days. Even...

I've had a bizarre 48 hours moving from Arles in Provence back to the Languedoc then flying home to Bristol yesterday, in the process ex...

Confession time. I've never cooked breast of lamb before, having been put off by the decidedly fatty boned, rolled roasts of my youth. B...

The way food looks is always important, to me at least, but all the more so if you're using up leftovers. There's nothing more depre...

The problem about writing this book is that you not only have to use up all your own leftovers but those of well-meaning friends. "You ...