Hello Dear Reader,
Oh I've been hard at it again today! I had a lovely rummage around the charity shops of Saltash and then Dearly Beloved took me to their local community centre that has a cafe run by volunteers. Two coffees and two choccy biscuits for £3.50! Find their website HERE I'm so impressed by the place that I think it will be a great venue to hire for a great big quilting, sewing or knitting get together! They have a quilting group that meets there on a Friday from 10am - 4pm and I would go if I wasn't at work. There is a community space upstairs which can be hired and there is a cafe downstairs. The view from the patio is stunning!
There is also new walk right under the road bridge and round to the 'other side' of Saltash. We had a walk around the wooded area and were enchanted by the playscheme that was looking after the children in the holidays. What a lovely place for them to have fun.
I managed to buy a dress, pyjamas, a cardigan and two tops for work and I spend £12 in total; it's all in the wash and ready to go onto the line. If anyone wants to buy a full set of Beryl woodware dinner service and teaset - they had one in the Hospice shop in the mainstreet of Saltash for £6! Go get it!
Here's another recipe for you all and this would serve eight! We'll be eating this for the rest of the week!
Spinach and Feta Pie.
You will need
1 block of ready made puff pastry - 99p - Morrisons.
350g of frozen spinach - defrosted - 36p - Morrisons
1 pack of Feta cheese - 500g - 85p - Aldi
1 onion - chopped and fried - 18p - Aldi
2 beaten eggs - 33p
teaspoon dried parsley - or fresh if you have it - 5p
Sprinkle of nutmeg - 2p
Total - £2.78 and serves 8 - 34p per portion. Serve with salad and you have another meal for well under £1.
Pre-heat the oven to 180/Gas 5
Defrost the spinach and separate the leaves with a fork.
Crumble the feta cheese.
Add the fried onions.
Add a heaped teaspoon of parsley, some salt and pepper and some nutmeg.
Beat two eggs and stir through.
Divide the pastry block into two and roll out to fit the size of a baking tray.
Carefully arrange the ingredients on top.
Lay the next piece of pastry on top of filling and secure the edges by either pressing down with a fork or crimping, by folding and pinching.
Bake for 30 minutes and then check, if it needs longer or if it's ready. It will be golden brown and crispy if it is ready.
I marked the top so it's kind of Spanakopita meets Pithivier with Cornish Crimping!
Of course, the obligatory close up - we had ours with a beetroot and tomato salad.
I'll be back tomorrow with a lovely 'use everything but the cluck' chicken recipe and will show how one chicken can feed two people all week not to mention the recipe for Anzac Biscuits.............can you believe that DB has emptied the biscuit tin already?!?
Until then,
Love Froogs xxxxxxxxxxxxx
We had 'squeak' chow mein, using up the odds and ends in the fridge and some left over belly pork from last night. Noodles, a one egg omelette, mushrooms, carrot, cauliflower, spring onions and cashew nuts, good sprinkling of soy sauce. Yum!
ReplyDeleteThat looks absolutely delicious! I've never bought puff pastry, but I'm going to look for it on my next grocery trip. At the moment, those happen about once every 2 weeks.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Beryl WoodsWare will be a fantastic find for someone! Lovely stuff :)
It's a little like my low calorie version of spinach and cottage cheese file rolls! I am definitely going to use frozen spinach I've been buying it fresh from the co op for £1 a bag of baby spinach.
ReplyDeleteI made this x2 using home made pastry for the bottom and the ready-rolled puff for the lid. That way it came out at around 36c a portion (28p or thereabouts). Was V delish!
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We love all the ingredients of the pie in any shape or form and ave Spanakopita quite often usually with filo pastry.
ReplyDeleteI want - no - I have to have that Woods ware. Do you think they would post it to Ireland?
ReplyDeleteK :-)
This looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteOur temps have been so high I've been relying on the slow cooker for most of our meals. Tonight I even managed to bake a cornbread in a smaller slow cooker that I have. It was wonderful. (The meal of corned beef hash, cabbage and cornbread used up two leftovers from the fridge, too. A win win situation.)
The pie looks yum! I'll have to give that a go. I also like the sound of the crafting group!
ReplyDeleteI con totally believe that DB has emptied the biscuit tin. Well what do you expect when you keep filling it with tasty homemade (and luckily very economical) biscuits. :-)
ReplyDeleteI love the look of that Spinach and Feta Pie definitely one to add to my repertoire I think. Although somehow I doubt we would get eight portions out of it you must be very good at resisting second helpings :-)
I'm amazed at how many recipes there are for this kind of pie that call for fresh spinach! Just so unnecessary; unless you happen to grow your own (we grow 'spinach beet' which grows like mad until it finally seeds) frozen works perfectly in this kind of dish, and it's considerably cheaper too.
ReplyDeleteI have some Aldi feta in the back of the fridge and we are definitely having this for dinner tonight. I have Aldis puff pastry frozen from Christmas. Thanks Froogs. Looks lovely :)
ReplyDeletemmm might be tempted to make this it looks yum!i might add some chopped cooked potato and dill as well, you are looking great jane, all that hard work has paid off xx
ReplyDeletemmmm looks yum!i think I might give this a go but I might add some cooked potato and some dill!looking good jane, aall that hard work has paid off!xxx
ReplyDeleteI had to make this, it looked so good. I didn't have the pastry so had to make it, no frozen spinach either so had to fetch some out of the garden. Parsley too. I made it for under $10 AUS. It looked fantastic and tasted very very nice too. We had it for dinner and will have a piece each for lunch today. Thanks Froogs.
ReplyDeleteJust checked the price of Feta this morning (only ingredient I'm missing). $9.99 for a 500 grm tub.
ReplyDeletecheese is not cheap in Canada.
looks delicious. x
ReplyDeleteThank you for this recipe - made it this week and had a lovely tea out of it, and our work lunches the next day! It is lovely hot or cold, will definitely be making it again and again! x
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