Serves: 4-6 Cost: ~€8-14 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 actually...
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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 The ones I originally made were stuffed with...
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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 something...
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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 May...
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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 and...
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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...
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British guy, living in France since 2005, exploring my way through the culinary world - always eager to learn and try new things! Come along with me for the ride - check out my recipes 
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