When the going gets tough, the tough gets baking!

After £300 of unexpected bills this month and another £200 needed for car tax next month, were a little short of cash right now. Im living out of my very well stocked store cupboard and freezer, keeping shopping costs to a minimum to pay off an overdraft by next month. 

Well, my motto is 'When the going gets tough, the tough gets baking!' 

Its always worth keeping a supply of baking ingredients in the house. You can knock up so many snacks, sweet and savoury and puddings to keep your morale up when things are tight and meals get rather repetitive.

The recipe for these arent quite right yet, theyre chocolate avocado muffins ;) Even so, with a 6p pack of custard poured over the top the kids scoff them up for pudding.

I had some cherry tomatoes on the vine that needed using up:

Roasted them in olive oil in the oven for about half an hours and used 1/3 of them to make:

Roasted tomato and cheese scones! :) The recipe for the bread on the right will come later.

So for the scones, im short on butter and wanted to use oil instead. So this is the recipe i ended up with:

2 cups self-raising flour

3tsp baking powder

large pinch salt

sprinkle of cayenne pepper/chilli powder (optional)

1 1/2 cups strong cheddar cheese

3 tsp vegetable oil

125 ml milk (maybe a bit more depending on how it mixes)

1 egg

1/2 cup roasted tomatoes chopped

Combine all the dry ingredients, mix in the cheese and tomatoes.

In a measuring jug, whisk the milk, egg and oil.

Mix into the dry ingredients with a fork and form a ball of dough.

Tip out onto a floured work surface and kneed a little to combine

Either shape into patties as I did or roll out and use a cutter.

Brush with milk or egg.

Bake for 15-20mins on 180 degrees.

YUMMY!!!!

The roasted tomatoes add a sweet flavour. Perfect snack for my little minions who are currently eating me out of house and home!!

I will be posting our weekly menu next. All meals have been made from ingredients at home, I havent been shopping this week and shall get the bare minimum for next week.