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Since we’re all still in the hold of this Global recession everywhere you look there are recipes for using up leftovers and ideas and tips on how to get the most for your money.

A new show which has been very popular on the BBC recently is Economy Gastronomy. It features money saving ideas to allow families to cook tasty, healthy and nutritious food on a budget.

One of the main cornerstones of Econonmy Gastronomy is to have a bedrock recipe which you use as the basis to create multiple meals for the week.

Our bedrock recipe this week was a roast chicken  and in order to use up the leftover roast chicken Arruzo con Pollo was the next recipe in the chain.   The recipe said it serves 4 but it’s 4 huge portions so I would say it feeds 6.

Here’s the recipe, enjoy!  We certainly did.

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This is another rather unorthodox recipe from Sue Style and her great book Eat and Two Veg.  I must apologize to the purests among you but I’m no food snob and I like to experiment so I thought I would give this a try.. and what do you know, we loved it!!

See what you think..

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This recipe is based on one from Eat and Two Veg by Sue Style.  Sue is originally from England but has lived in Spain, France, Switzerland and Mexico and this is really reflected in the her cookery.  The  choice of ingredients and combinations are refreshingly innovative.

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It’s grill season and so it’s time for me to dust off my favourite summer cookbook – The Great Big Burger Book!

For anyone who loves BBQ’s this is an essential piece of kit.

This recipe is based upon one from the Great Big Burger Book but it’s not exactly the same so I give you my version:

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This Nigel Slater recipe came from his show called a Taste of My Life.

I’ve been looking for a more authentic recipe to try and since my son adores pasta I thought this would be ideal for a nice relaxing family meal.

I was right, clean plates all round!  It was delicious, rich and filling, perfect!

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This recipe comes from the New Covent Garden Soup Company’s  – Soup & Beyond book.  I can really recommend the Covent Garden cookbooks as I have a couple and so far all the recipes I’ve tried have always been delicious.  They saved my bacon on Christmas Day when I had a soup disaster and found I had all the ingredients for the Lentil and Bacon soup in the cupboard!!

Anyway, back to the risotto.  We were shopping at a local farm last weekend, at this time of year the local produce is amazing and they had some really great looking green and yellow courgettes so we bought a load and then weren’t sure what to make with them.  Mid week Stewart was looking through the cookbooks trying to find inspiration and the Covent Garden book fell open at this page and he decided to test it out. It was simply divine!  Really tasty!  Matthew loved it too as he had a little bit for lunch the next day!

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I really adore Spaghetti Carbonara and it’s one of Stewart’s favourite’s too!  We’ve been looking for a simple and authentic recipe for a while and this one ticked all the boxes.

This recipe comes courtesy of Nigella Lawson’s Feast.

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We tried this recipe for the first time a few weeks ago, it was featured on Saturday Kitchen broadcast on BBC1.  It takes a little bit of time but it is a really tasty.

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It’s wonderful to be back in the world of blogging!!  My first recipe is a nice and simple affair.

This recipe was featured on BBC2′s show Something For The Weekend by Simon Rimmer and was first broadcast on Sunday 8th June.

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New Years Eve or Hogmanay as it’s known in Scotland is bursting with traditions such as the customary “First Foot”. As the clock strikes midnight there is a chorus of “Auld Lang Syne and then comes the “First Food”. “The “first foot” is the first person to cross the threshold into a house after the chimes of midnight. Usually the “first foot” brings gifts of salt, coal, bread or shortbread and whiskey and if it’s a tall dark stranger then that’s good luck. ”

I always loved New Years Eve when I was growing up in Scotland, it was so exciting as a child going out to visit family in the middle of the night!

On New Years Day every year we’d go to my grandmother’s house and tuck into a big hearty plate of steak pie without it New Years Day just isn’t the same. In accordance with this I decided to make a steak pie for us to enjoy this year on New Years Day, this is my recipe..

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