Yet again Freeborn, your inability to be a real adult has got the better of you. All your friends have abandoned you to go to the beach because you didn’t get out of bed before 10am. What are you going to do with yourself now, you lazy bastard? Now isn’t the time for personal attacks, … Continue reading The Cheapskate’s Guide to Farmer’s Markets
A student from the University of Edinburgh has gone "viral" for sharing a simple trick to make dinner on a budget. English Language student Fliss Freeborn, who is also the female president of the "Make Italians Angry" society (known to members as the Mama M.I.A) posted her recipe for a simple pasta dish on the … Continue reading Italians HATE her: savvy student shares pasta HACK in melanzane mayhem
It's just a bit too February for fresh raspberries. They may look enticingly ripe and ready, but don't be fooled: they're all style and no substance at this time of year. And, at roughly £13/kg, they're a great way to hemorrhage cash. At that price, you could buy two pairs of bespoke Gregg's Sausage Roll … Continue reading Year-Round Raspberry Crumble (Breakfast Edition)
Hello babies. I hope you're all doing well. My only task today was to read a sociolinguistics paper but I was bored titless before I even got to the methodology, so I've given up and have come to procrastinate on the food blog instead. My pal Judith mentioned to me the other day that I … Continue reading Things to Make vs Things to Fake
Ok, in my previous post I strayed pretty far from God's light, so we're bringing it back with a savoury pancake recipe. I had this for dinner last night, as pictured above (ignore the ice-screw in the picture - you don't need one for this recipe) and it was gorgeously rich and rather therapeutic to … Continue reading Savoury Pancakes with Leek, Bacon and Gruyere filling
This post was going to be for a savoury pancake recipe with a leek, gruyere and bacon filling. But then, when I was googling where to buy Taleggio cheese for a different recipe I have in mind (no, you can't "just use cheddar" and yes, I'm aware this is a student recipe site), I came … Continue reading I Review Other People’s Reviews of Waitrose Products In A Cyclical Display of Arseholery
Now that Wotsit Hitler has gone, it's time to democratise power even more - so I'm sharing with you my method to achieve Egg, so you too can be as fulfilled and happy as me. Egg is my favourite breakfast recipe. It's creamy, it's dreamy and it's perfect to smurgle on top of lavishly buttered … Continue reading How to Egg
Hello, dedicated reader. Happy New Lockdown, and I hope you had a very Merry Coupmas. What a cracking start to 2021. Here's a recipe for a citrus drizzle cake which you can either ignore, or make use of. It is lovely and *puts on Nigella Mask* Wonderfully Moist so if you have a spare 20 … Continue reading Citrus Drivel Cake
All good things in life start with puff pastry: sausage rolls, sausage rolls, and dictionaries written by shit lexicographers. But puff pastry is more versatile than just providing a jacket for mashed up bits of pig. Puff pastry is noble, clever, and fills any dips in serotonin you may be experiencing with its wondrous fat … Continue reading 10 naughty things to do with a pack of puff pastry
Lads lads lads. This soup is basically free if you play your cards right. Ok, maybe not free but like, a bonus meal that comes as a nice tasty surprise because you've previously thrown out your chicken bones and not used the massive woody stem of the broccoli, because GUESS WHAT those are the … Continue reading Zero Waste Chicken and Broccoli Soup
Student Cuisine for the Gloomy Teen 