The Frugal Cook

After four days of quite ridiculous overeating in Canada (involving at least two multi-course meals every day) it was good to be home again....

My weekend visit to the butcher (the one who was down in the dumps) yielded a wild rabbit which I decided to turn into the great French bis...

My visit to the farmers' market this morning has left me feeling quite depressed. Apart from one stall whose produce is always snapped u...

We had friends round to supper last night, two of whom were chefs which sounds a bit daunting. What I've learnt over the years though i...

It's been a while since I tried a new recipe - as opposed to inventing my own - but when I saw Ahdaf Soueif's recipe for koshari in...

I decided to make a risotto last night to use up the chicken stock and a few leftover bits of chicken. As already reported the stock had (...

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...