The Frugal Cook

I love recipes you rustle up from what you have in the fridge, freezer and storecupboard. It lends a creative edge to cooking that you ne...

You might well have wondered what happened to the 5:2 diet which has been conspicuously absent from the blog lately? Well, I'm stil...

Having bought a £1 bag of veg at the Feeding the 5000 event last Saturday I decided to make it the basis for the next day's meals -...

Sooner or later everyone on a diet turns to cottage cheese. Everyone except me, up to now. I’ve always loathed the stuff. But with ordi...

Although I find I can skip lunch more readily than I used to when I started the 5:2 diet there are days when the hunger pangs just won’t...

Having whinged about veg boxes for years, I'm now giving them another try. Why? Because I've found a really good scheme on my door...

I've been thinking for a while about making devilled eggs since I spotted this feature in Saveur. They are, of course, ridiculously old...

I've been in the south of France for the last few days where we're lucky to have a fantastic fruit and veg shop down the road. The m...

My husband seems to have taken over in the kitchen recently which isn't too good for this blog so I'm having to raid the back catal...

Well, here I am back again. You might well wonder why when I already have two other blogs ( Food and Wine Finds and The Cheeselover ) but t...

Another salad. It's so hot here (in the Languedoc) I can't get my head round making anything else. Hot too in London, I gather, so m...

The key to this simple salad, which I got from a French friend several years ago, is frying the onion well as it providea a really flavourfu...

When it's hot, as it is (steamingly . . . ) right now in the south of France, I really don't like to cook that much so the best thin...

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...

With two days left to go in France before we pack up and head home I seem to have a fridge full of lettuce - mainly outer leaves I've sa...

Yesterday's shopping trip wasn't wildly exciting but yielded some good bargains. 2 kilos of oranges (11 in total) for €1.99 (£1.48),...