Author: danaperry85

Sausage Casserole with Home Baked Bread & Real Butter

This monster can feed four people, or two & freeze leftovers

Prep: 20mins, Oven: 45mins, Cost: £0.61 per portion, Serves: 4.

8 sausages

3 potato’s, diced

3 carrots, chopped

1 leek, chopped

1 tin chopped tomato’s

1tbsp tomato purée

2 vegetable stock cubes

1pt boiling water

2tbsp olive oil

Salt

Pepper

Home baked bread & Welsh salted butter.

In a deep pan, fry up the sausages in olive oil for about 10mins then set aside in a dish.

Reduce heat & use the remaining oil in the pan to cook the leek for 5mins. Add tomato purée, salt, and pepper, and mix well. Add the potato’s & carrot, and turn for 5mins until well coated. Add chopped tomato’s & vegetable stock, and bring to the boil, stirring regularly.

Empty pan into casserole dish & oven cook at 160•c (fan) for 45mins or until potato & carrot are just soft enough.

Welsh salted butter.

Served with home baked bread & Welsh salted butter.

Home baked bread sliced with a 45yr old electric knife! One of my Mam & Dad’s anniversary gifts and still going strong!

First loaf from our new bread maker!

This was an early Xmas gift from Nana Bear & Aunty Emmie and it’s fantastic! So user friendly & versatile. We can’t wait for midnight hot chocolate & toast with real butter!

500g strong white flour

1.5tsp sugar

25g butter

1.25tsp salt

350ml water

7g sachet yeast

Baking time: 4hrs

Honey & Banana Porridge

This morning’s early breakfast, already followed by digestive biscuit dippers & red pepper hummus (cravings!).

50g rolled oats

100ml milk

125ml water

1 banana

2tbsp honey

Large pinch cinnamon

Heat the oats, milk, and honey in a pan. Stir occasionally to a soft boil, then reduce heat. Mash half of the banana into the pan, stir & simmer for a couple of minutes.

Transfer to serving bowl, add the rest of the banana, honey, and cinnamon.

Penne & Pesto

Super quick, simple, cheap, and healthy!

Prep: 20mins, Cost: 35p per portion. I’m obsessed with this dish! And really quite excited that I found a 190g jar of pesto for just 90p at Tesco : )

(Single portion)

100g penne pasta

30g pesto

1 tomato

1tbsp olive oil

Salt

Pepper

Boil pasta & drain, add olive oil, salt, pepper, and pesto, mix well. Top with one chopped tomato & season with a bit more salt & pepper.

Homesoaked Reusable Face Wipes Recipe

Cleansing, brightening, and moisturising- Eco friendly & natural skincare.

This is a test batch, so for now it’s just 3 flannels chopped up into quarters, to make 12 large palm sized wipes. When it’s time to buy myself a present I’m going to hop straight over to #fullofcolour for some of their gorgeous soft & hand stitched face wipes in a range of prints!

First, pour boiling water over the wipes in a pan for sterilisation, leave to soak for a few minutes then drain. Top the pan back up with distilled water & gently warm.

In a Bain Marie melt 1tbsp of cocoa butter with 3tbsp of pomace olive oil. Remove from heat and stir in essential oils- 3 drops of grapefruit, 7 drops of lavender.

Add the oils & butter mix to the pan, stir well, and leave to soak for 10mins.

With clean hands, gently squeeze excess water from each wipe individually, then fold & stack into a sterilised air tight container. Can be kept at room temperature or in the fridge.

Peanut Butter Porridge

What better way to start The Three Bears than a recipe for Porridge!

100g Rolled Oats

450ml Milk

4tsp Demerara Sugar

1 heated tbsp Peanut Butter

1 pinch Cinnamon

1 small handful Dry Roasted Peanuts

Heat up oats, milk, and sugar in a pan until hot, add peanut butter & stir to a boil, simmer for a few minutes, add to serving bowl, decorate with cinnamon & peanuts.