Five Euro Food

Blanquette de Veau (French Veal Ragout)

Serves: 4-6 Cost: ~€6-10 Preparation and cooking time: ~2 hours Calories: - I should mention before I begin that I’m not really a fan of unethical food. I try to buy free-range meat, I always buy organic, free-range eggs (and am thankful that I live in a part of the world where those terms and their usage is...

Posted by Charles on May 20, 2013 | 8 comments

Stuffed Bread Rolls

Serves: Makes ~24 rolls Cost: ~€2-3 Preparation and cooking time: ~2.5 hours Calories: - Hi folks, I hope this day sees you well. I’d originally planned to post a slightly different version of these but after looking at the photos I decided that I had to make them again. The ones I originally made were stuffed with...

Posted by Charles on May 15, 2013 | 44 comments

Ode to a Cupcake

Serves: Makes about 50 mini cupcakes Cost: ~€8 Preparation and cooking time: ~50 minutes Calories: ~110 per cupcake I heard recently that, apparently, cupcakes are “out”. Macarons are the new big thing apparently, unless I missed the memo and those fickle cake eaters of the world have since moved on to...

Posted by Charles on May 10, 2013 | 37 comments

Easy Vegetarian Gravy

Serves: 4 Cost: ~€0.30 Preparation and cooking time: ~10 mins Calories: ~75 per serving Hi everyone, how’s your weekend been? Not just the weekend, the whole week? May is always an enjoyable month in France. We’re blessed with not one, not two, but three public holidays in very quick succession. The first was...

Posted by Charles on May 5, 2013 | 37 comments

Baked Eggs ‘n’ Gravy

Serves: 2 Cost: ~€2.50-€6.50 (depending on type of eggs used) Preparation and cooking time: ~20 minutes Calories: ~310 My wife belongs to an expat mothers’ group in Paris (called Message, in case anyone ever ends up having a baby in the Paris area. They’re very good – they offer all sorts of resources...

Posted by Charles on Apr 30, 2013 | 47 comments

Stuffed Bread Rolls

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Moules Frites

Apr 25, 13

Posted by Charles in Belgium, Cost, Country of Inspiration, Fish Recipes, Main Courses, More than €5, Post Archives, Quick Recipes, Recipes, €4 - €5

Serves: 2 Cost: ~€5 Preparation and cooking time: ~10 minutes (not including the fries/chips) Calories: ~300 (mussels and sauce only) I always have a love-hate relationship with mussels. I have the utmost respect for these little shelled creatures after being violently ill no fewer than three times after eating them (in...

Cottage Cheese and Parsley Scones

Apr 20, 13

Posted by Charles in Baking and Snacks, Baking Recipes, Cost, Post Archives, Quick Recipes, Recipes, Side Dish Recipes, Starters, Salads, Soups and Sides, Vegetarian Dishes, €1 - €1.99

Serves: Makes ~10 scones Cost: ~€1.30 Preparation and cooking time: ~20 minutes Calories: ~160 per scone Hey there folks, I’m back to my regular programming, after my baby-food in my last post! Up today are the scones I served with my “Waste-not-want-not” Soup. As the soup is so deliciously light, if you were...

[Baby & Toddler] Kidney Bean Purée

Apr 15, 13

Posted by Charles in Baby and Toddler, Post Archives, Recipes

Today I was going to post the scones I mentioned in my previous post but those are being pushed back in favour of this short little post today. Fear not, adults – I’m not about to turn my blog into a baby food extravaganza but blogs should evolve with their writers. I am now, since almost 8 months, a father. Feeding my...

The “Waste-not-want-not” Soup

Apr 10, 13

Posted by Charles in Cost, Gluten-free Recipes, Post Archives, Quick Recipes, Recipes, Soup Recipes, Starter Recipes, Starters, Salads, Soups and Sides, Vegan Dishes, Vegetarian Dishes, €0 - €0.99

Serves: 4 Cost: ~€0.50 – €2 Preparation and cooking time: ~10 minutes Calories: ~60 per serving First off, before I forget, I must announce the winner of my abstract photo contest which I ran through March! Three people got the answer correct, and so with a bit of help from the number generator at random.org I can...

Old recipes revisited and some vacation photos

Apr 05, 13

Posted by Charles in Adventures, Post Archives

Greetings folks, I wanted to share with you a few photos and tales from my trip to England today. I’ve been having a wonderful time here. The amount of food I’ve been eating has been… ahem… quite scary and I’m not looking forward to stepping on the scales once I return to France. I should tell you all...

Typically British: The Victoria Sponge

Mar 30, 13

Posted by Charles in Baking and Snacks, Baking Recipes, Cost, Country of Inspiration, England, Household Basics, Post Archives, Recipes, €1 - €1.99

Serves: Makes ~8-10 slices Cost: ~€1.80 Preparation and cooking time: ~30 minutes Calories: ~282 per slice Hi again everyone, I’ve been busy in my parents’ kitchen and I wanted to make something typically British to commemorate my vacation here. This is a bit of a continuation from my Swedish sockerkaka recipe. I...

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Blanquette de Veau (French Veal Ragout)

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