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A reader’s tips for stale bread
Our reader Marcella sent in these great tips for using up stale bread: In our house we all freeze the heels of sliced pan and make breadcrumbs with them. My 15 yr old daughter uses these to make stuffing ( with herbs from garden ) every Sunday and I also use them for lentil and…
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Stale Bread Recipes: Bread and Butter Pudding with Jam, Old Fashioned Herb Stuffing
Stale bread. It might not sound like the most exciting ingredient of the week. But rather than throwing it out, it can be used up to make a variety of comforting dishes and old favourites. Bread and Butter Pudding with Raspberry Jam An old dessert, but one that has stood the test of time, this…
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Stale bread recipes from Torino
When we decided to write about stale bread as our ingredient of the week, Peter immediately bagsed bread and butter pudding and stuffing. Which left me pretty much stumped. That’s all I’ve ever made with stale bread, and most of the time I just give it to the ducks in the Grand Canal. Luckily, my…
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Christmas for beginners
I have never cooked Christmas lunch in my own house but I have always helped my Mother out on the day and for the past couple of years I have taken over proceedings – a balancing act that can sometimes drive me mad. It’s quite a complicated affair in terms of timing and there is…
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Recipe: Films that make you feast
I was completely hooked to ‘Masterchef’ when it was on BBC and it kind of controlled my life for a while, as sad as that sounds. Due to unstoppable snacking, I had to arrange my dinner around the show and make sure I would either be eating while it was on or have dinner afterwards.…
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Wednesday Wind-down: More Home Made Burgers
Last Saturday, our very kind BBQ guests brought their own meat and forgot to cook it, leaving us with a freezer full of mince. I’ve made the usual suspects: Cottage Pie, Spaghetti Bolognaise, and Home-Made Burgers, and still have some left. My burger recipe comes from my friend Phil Broadberry, purveyor of amazing curries, home-made…
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Weekly Roundup
We really got back to the 80s this week. Using up stale bread, eating student food, heading to the butcher, and basic meat, potato and veg meals. It was enough to drive us up north. Jean hosted CheapEat’s first supper club, feeding six friends for dinner with under €25. Peter ate in Roscommon pub Beirne’s…
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Ingredient of the Week, Leftover Bread: Italian Bread Soup with Tomato
The amount of times I’ve thrown out bread is criminal. It’s so easy to buy a sliced pan and find yourself eating only a few slices before over half of it has descended into staleness. For our regular Ingredient of the Week feature, we thought we’d run some simple suggestions for what to do with…
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Green Grannies
Oxfam GB have the nicest new feature on their website – Green Grannies who tell us about ways to save money and avoid waste. In the clip below, the Green Granny shows us how to use up stale bread in bread and butter pudding: Great advice, and what a lovely Granny!