The Book of Rubbish Ideas positively celebrates reducing waste in your home and keeping more money in your pocket by being savvy with some of your shopping ideas. Of course, cooking from fresh is a terrific way of combining both and I’ve been doing it for years. I started making simple recipe loaves and rolls [...]
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Save Money, Reduce Rubbish: Workshops with Tracey Smith
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish events, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish news, Rubbish products, Rubbish recipes, tagged Book of Rubbish Ideas, Bread Making, Eco-experience, flatbreads, Frugality, Jurassic Coast, Lyme Regis, Tracey Smith on 30 November 2011 | Leave a Comment »
‘Your’ Fabulous Rubbish Flatbreads!
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish recipes, tagged How to Make Flatbreads, recipe, rubbish flatbreads, Tracey Smith on 29 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
This post has been inspired by the lovely Emily C who made flatbreads for the first time recently. So many of you write and share your Great-Breaden experiences (sorry, that was truly awful) and I thought it would be fun to let you all loose in my virtual bakery! Please post your recipe derivations for [...]
A Weekend of Talking Rubbish!
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish events, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish on the Radio, Rubbish recipes, Tracey Smith reads from her Book of Rubbish Ideas, tagged Apple AM, Dorchester Festival, Hospital Radio, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, Tracey Smith on 2 May 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hi all! Just a shortie, boy have I got a packed weekend ahead of me. On Saturday, I’ll be broadcasting an hour of my ‘Slow Down and Green Up’ radio show (usual slot every Wednesday between 10 and 1pm) in celebration of the fact that our radio station has been broadcasting for 40 years to [...]
Sprouting Fillers
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish recipes, tagged A Vogel, alfalfa, money saving tips, sprouting seeds on 12 April 2009 | 9 Comments »
If you’ve got my neverending lettuce’s on the go on your windowsills, well done green-fingered chum, you’re going to love this too! Here’s another delicious filler to accompany them in salads, sandwiches and in thousands of other dishes; sprouting seeds and beans. You’ll probably remember cultivating mustard cress at school; I do believe, along with [...]
Don’t Have a Rubbish Mother’s Day!
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish news, Rubbish recipes, tagged 22nd March, crafting, Fair, Fairtrade Tropical Compote, fruit porridge, Fruit Shakes, granola, hand-made cards, Kate Sebag, Mother's Day, tea cake with bananas and raisins, The Fairtrade Foundation, Tropical Wholefoods on 2 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’ll be here before you know it missus! I thought I’d get in quick with a rubbish-free card solution and with a yummy idea to get the day started on the right foot too. I’ve also allowed you a stack of lead time to send this article to any fellas you know who might be [...]
Events: Tracey Smith Brings ‘Rubbish’ to Dorchester Literary & Arts Festival
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish news, Rubbish recipes, Tracey Smith reads from her Book of Rubbish Ideas, tagged Charlie Bone, Darcie Lock, Dorchester Festival, Dorchester on Thames, Dragonfly, flatbreads, Jenny Nimmo, Julia Golding, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, The Cat series, Tracey Smith on 10 February 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well, not literally you understand. I’ve been asked to attend the Dorchester Festival to give a reading from my Book of Rubbish Ideas and do a demonstration on how to make my Fabulous Rubbish Flatbreads. I must confess, it’s the first lit fest I’ve been confirmed to attend this year and I’m beside myself with [...]
Rubbish Recipes: My Divine Beetroot Plaits
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish recipes, tagged beetroot, herbs, home baking, how to make bread, how to make rolls, leeks, parsnip, plaits, Tracey Smith on 15 January 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’ve been inspired by the ever-increasing number of readers I have of the other recipes here on the blog and I thought I’d post another of my favourites for you to play with. It’s another bread recipe, fabulously simple and incredibly impressive! The reason I love sharing my bread recipes with you, is because if [...]
How To: Make Honey Roasted Pumpkin Soup – a photo guide
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish recipes, tagged beat the credit crunch, Halloween, Honey Roasted Pumpkin Soup, Jamie Oliver, money saving tips, Pass It On, soup recipe, step-by-step recipe, The Met Office, UK Weather, Use up leftovers on 31 October 2008 | 11 Comments »
If you’re planning on carving out a pumpkin to celebrate Halloween, here’s a great way of turning the leftover scoopings into something utterly delicious to warm you up when you get home. It’s best served hot, with chunks of tasty bread for dipping and mopping. Pumpkins will be around for a few weeks more and [...]
Transition Town Initiatives in AAAAAAGGHHtion
Posted in Food rubbish, General rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish recipes, tagged community projects, fundraising ideas, Halloween, Honey Roasted Pumpkin Soup, photo guide, recipes, soup, step-by-step recipe, sustainable communities, The Magdalen Project, Thorncombe, Transition Town on 31 October 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ok, just in case you don’t get my tenuous stab at a Halloween joke, that should be read as, ‘Action’, in a frightened and scary voice… (All right, all right, it wasn’t that bad!) As reported here recently, my little village is proudly on the ‘Mulling it Over‘ list of Transition Towns and our monthly [...]
How To: ‘Enjoy’ a Rubbish Children’s Party!
Posted in Food rubbish, General rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish recipes, tagged beat the credit crunch, birthday present ideas, cake recipes, cakes, children's entertainers, children's parties, crafts, games, gifts, jigzone jigsaw, karaoke, money saving tips, parties, party food, popcorn on 17 October 2008 | 5 Comments »
By that I mean, how to have all the fun without creating a great stack of trash! Children’s parties are big business and they have become expensive nightmares filled with plastic tat, most of which ends up in the bin the minute the guests head home. Here are some of my top tips for taking [...]
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