Tag Archives: cooking

Cooking for Mum: Pies

Posted on October 23, 2025 by nicdempsey

If it was up to Mum, she wouldn’t eat much at all. This is what happened in August, she wasn’t eating enough, fell over and wasn’t strong enough to get up. While we both know what’s coming with the PSP, … Continue reading →

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Food Prep: Caring for Mum Edition

Posted on September 4, 2025 by nicdempsey

My mum has stopped being able to cook, it’s a combination of osteoarthritis in her hands and the increasing frailty, she currently has carers come in twice a day but they will only microwave meals. Ma’s preferred food solutions to … Continue reading →

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Home Cooking: Bread

Posted on May 9, 2024 by nicdempsey

Last year, I got into a ruinously expensive Gail’s bread habit, their seeded sourdough is lovely. I decided that I had to get back into the bread baking habit, I started with this recipe from BBC Good Food. It was … Continue reading →

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Tomato Soup

Posted on October 20, 2022 by nicdempsey

At this time of year, the amount of soup I eat/drink increases, it’s the best way I know of using up veg, the ‘kitchen sink’ soup is my thing. At the moment, soup is my go to dinner for the … Continue reading →

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Food lately

Posted on September 8, 2022 by nicdempsey

It’s the middle of September and while I’ve been dealing with a slight overload of produce. These have been some of the meals that are helping me deal with it! Baked feta and tomato pasta. I’m late to this one … Continue reading →

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Low Spend January

Posted on January 6, 2022 by nicdempsey

On Tuesday, I talked about what I want to do/achieve this month. One of those things was low spend January. My intention is not to buy anything (aside from food) for the month of January. I live in a small … Continue reading →

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Cooking from the Plot: Vegetable Quiche

Posted on October 14, 2021 by nicdempsey

I’ve been dealing with a surfeit of vegetables for the last month. The summer squash decided to go mental, the greens are abundant right now, there’s a lot. I came across a recipe for roasted vegetable quiche which had a … Continue reading →

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Focaccia

Posted on July 1, 2021 by nicdempsey

This is a great recipe, it’s looks and taste are much greater than the effort. As you can see I added tomatoes but it’s great plain too, I want to try onions next.

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Adventures in Menu Planning: No Spend Week

Posted on May 20, 2021 by nicdempsey

One of the things I’ve picked up this year is to have a week every month when I don’t grocery shop, usually the week before the I’m paid. It’s a good habit to keep me acquainted with everything that’s in … Continue reading →

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Oddbox and Potato Crust Quiche

Posted on May 6, 2021 by nicdempsey

Because the allotment isn’t producing a lot at the moment (we’re getting rhubarb and not much else) I decided to try Oddbox. Yes, it’s part of my drive to be a bit more sustainable because this produce would be thrown … Continue reading →

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