If you’re aiming to be a little more thrifty this month, check out Patrick Ryan of the Firehouse Bakery on RTE’S Today Show, from 4.30pm this evening.

Patrick will be showing you how to cook a tasty three-course meal from stale bread. For starters, he’s rustling up some bruschetta and crostini, with a side of hummus; for mains, it’s Panzanella salad, and for desert, it’s the delicious Pain Perdu, which is essentially bread cooked in caramel.

For full recipes, check out the below links to the RTE website…

http://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/food/recipes/2014/0113/4182-bruschetta-and-crostini/

http://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/food/recipes/2014/0113/4183-almost-instant-hummus/

http://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/food/recipes/2014/0113/4184-panzanella-salad/

http://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/food/recipes/2014/0113/4185-caramel-pain-perdu/

See www.firehouse.ie for full details.