I don't have time this evening to post a full blog but I cooked/baked two different things today that I wanted to share with you at least in part.
The first was a chicken mince shepherd's pie (no photo, was too hungry - sorry!!). I cooked the mince in my usual way - dry frying it, then simmering in passata with herbs. But at the last minute I had a brainwave and added a splash of teriyaki sauce to the pan. It really gave the chicken a more 'meaty' edge - I know it worked because I was scraping my spoon round the edge of the pan after dinner, trying to get the last bits out, and I haven't had the urge to do that since I stopped cooking with beef mince :-)!! I made the mash for the pie out of swede with a drop of low fat spread and about 20g of egg white. The whole dish came to 4pp (for 150g chicken mince) and was a beautifully warming, filling meal.
The second thing I made today was inspired by a recipe I saw in one of the Jewish magazines last weekend - either Binah, Family First or Ami Living, but I can't remember which one, sorry. It was for chanukah gelt (money) cookies - I thought it was such a novel idea that I made them myself; I used the recipe posted on here a while back for chocolate chip cookies, only I left out the chocolate chips and the dried cranberries. As soon as the cookies came out of the oven I pressed a parev chocolate coin (small size) onto the surface and then left them to cool and harden. The recipe made 20 cookies of 2pp each (that includes the chocolate). Lovely chanukah treat! 
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