Five Euro Food

Courgette, Tomato and Feta Cheese Tart

Charles — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:23 +0000

Serves: 4 – 6 Cost: ~€4.20 Preparation time: ~45 minutes Calories: ~640 per serving, if divided by 4 people oy of joys, I just discovered that one can actually buy puff pastry in France! Call me silly, and indeed, people who live in France, or near France already will probably be face-palming at my previous [...]

Beetroot, Feta and… Raspberry Salad

Charles — Sun, 13 May 2012 07:00:11 +0000

Serves: 2 Cost: ~€1.70 Preparation time: ~10 minutes Calories: ~260 per serving i everyone, I hope you’re all having a fantastic, restful weekend. I thought I’d write about one of my favourite salads today – very apt, what with my current attempts to try and eat at least a little healthier . The first time [...]

Poached Meringue and Rhubarb baked with Orange Flower Water

Charles — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:00:38 +0000

Serves: 2-3 Cost: ~€1.80 Preparation time: ~25 minutes Calories: ~250 per serving Adapted from a recipe for “oeufs à la neige” by Gary Rhodes ay is a rather fun month because there are no fewer than three bank holidays here in France. Yesterday happened to be one such bank holiday and before I dive into [...]

Instant Blueberry “Ice-Cream”

Charles — Sun, 06 May 2012 07:00:49 +0000

Serves: 2 Cost: ~€2.50 Preparation time: ~5 minutes Calories: ~130 per serving appy Sunday everyone. I feel like it’s a bit wrong to post this recipe when you see the weather we’re having here right now. Once again it’s raining hard, and we even had a thunderstorm earlier, but, well, I can’t control the weather [...]

Garlic and Cumin Roasted Chickpeas

Charles — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:00:40 +0000

Serves: n/a Cost: ~€0.80 Preparation time: ~1 hour 5 minutes Calories: ~50 calories per 1 tbsp serving reetings folks. I hope you’ve all been having a good week thus far. I returned to work yesterday after an extended weekend involving a couple of vacation days and a bank holiday. It’s weird thinking it “already” Thursday, [...]

Quinoa Flour Tortillas and Parisian Canals

Charles — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:00:51 +0000

Serves: Makes ~10 large tortillas Cost: ~€1.40 Preparation time: ~20 minutes preparation, 20 minutes total cooking time Calories: ~50 calories per tortilla i everyone, I promised you photos today and I won’t disappoint, but a disclaimer first. The weather yesterday was filthy. Overcast and grey and rain spilling down around us. It was not good [...]

Piccalilli

Charles — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:00:19 +0000

Serves: n/a Cost: ~€4 Preparation time: ~12 + 1 hours Calories: ~n/a ‘m not sure about you but I love the idea of canning and pickling. I have a vision of one day having a house, a big bright, airy kitchen, a garden which I can fill with vegetable and fruit seeds during the spring [...]

Chocolate and Chestnut Cupcakes

Charles — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:00:08 +0000

Serves: Makes 12 large cupcakes Cost: ~€3.60 Preparation time: ~20 minutes preparation, 25 minutes cooking time Calories: ~360 calories per cupcake ‘d planned to post something else today, but to my dismay I realised that I’d completely forgotten to take a photo of the “final product”. I was looking around my computer and then it [...]

Summer Fruits Red Wine Jelly

Charles — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:00:09 +0000

Serves: 6 Cost: ~€3 Preparation time: ~30 minutes + 24 hours Calories: ~150-200 elly, or “Jello” as you may know it, gets a bad rap. Ridiculed by some who are convinced that it is one of the few desserts we have to offer in England – that and spotted dick of course – and scorned [...]

Making a good Gravy and the forest of Rambouillet

Charles — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:00:40 +0000

Serves: n/a Cost: ~€0.30 Preparation time: ~30 minutes Calories: n/a appy, er, Monday everyone. The start of a brand new week! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are all set for the week ahead! As I mentioned in my previous post, I went off on Sunday for a little picnic in the [...]

Calissons… Cali-what?

Charles — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:00:10 +0000

Serves: Makes ~50 Calissons Cost: ~€9 Preparation time: ~2.5 – 3.5 hours depending on cutting technique used Calories: ~82 calories per Calisson reetings fellow netizens. I hope you’ve been having a wonderful week. It’s friday today which can only mean one thing – weekend incoming! It’s actually been a while since I posted any photos [...]

Spotted Dick

Charles — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:00:52 +0000

Serves: Serves ~8 Cost: ~€3.50 Preparation time: ~1 hour 20 minutes Calories: ~400 if divided by 8 or those of you of a nervous dispostion, I suggest you look away now for today I’m going to tell you a story of horror and woe. Disturbing imagery lies ahead and I can’t be held responsible for [...]

Raspberry Ripple Cheesecake

Charles — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:00:21 +0000

Serves: Makes around 8 – 12 good slices Cost: ~€4.50 – €6 depending on type of fruit and cream cheese used Preparation time: ~20 minutes preparation and 50 minutes total cooking Calories: ~340 calories per slice if divided by 12 reetings everyone – boy oh boy am I looking forward to this weekend. All sorts [...]

Aumônières de Poires Flambées, Sauce Caramel au Beurre Salé et Ganache

Charles — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:00:34 +0000

ecause everything sounds better in French, right? Today I have the honour of writing a guest post for Nami over at Just One Cookbook while she’s on vacation with her family, but don’t worry – I didn’t write the post in French! The English title for the recipe would be Flambéed Pear Purses with Salted [...]

Yorkshire Puddings

Charles — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:00:04 +0000

Serves: Makes ~8 puddings Cost: ~€0.50 Preparation time: ~40 minutes Calories: ~80 calories per pudding o tour of England would be complete without a Sunday roast, and while I’ve done “the main event” before, as well as some traditional accompaniments, I’ve never actually posted Yorkshire puddings which are, for me, a vital part of the [...]

Seed Cake

Charles — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:00:10 +0000

Serves: Makes ~16 slices Cost: ~€1.60 Preparation time: ~40 minutes Calories: ~180 calories per slice ‘ve been thinking about what other English dishes I could make and while I had a few ideas, the weather has suddenly got rather warm and I’ve gotta say, I’m not so keen about the idea of slaving over a [...]

Lemon Curd

Charles — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:00:08 +0000

Serves: Makes ~2 jars Cost: ~€2 Preparation time: ~40 minutes Calories: ~51 per tbsp of 15g hen life gives you lemons, make lemonade, so the saying goes. Well – “life” didn’t give me lemons, the market did (and it was more a case of “giving” in exchange for money), and I’m not making lemonade, I’m [...]

Kedgeree

Charles — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:00:33 +0000

Serves: 4 Cost: ~€3.80 Preparation time: ~25 minutes Calories: ~425 per serving rom English schools and cricket matches to somewhere rather more far-flung. Today’s dish is something that the Brits rather stole from India, although we’ve no doubt modified it no small amount over the years. It’s not common at all anymore – I’ve never [...]

Summer Fruits Eton Mess

Charles — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:00:34 +0000

Serves: 4 – 6 Cost: ~€5, depending on the season Preparation time: ~15 minutes Calories: ~400 per serving ‘m sorry to say that this dish is a bit of a mess. Ha, no, I’m just kidding – despite the title, that’s actually the official name of the dish, which always makes for an entertaining time [...]

Scones and a traditional English Cream Tea

Charles — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:49 +0000

Serves: Makes ~8 Scones Cost: ~€1.10 Preparation time: ~25 minutes Calories: ~165 per plain Scone ell, it seems like an absolute age since I was here. I’ve been somewhat absent from my blog for the past 6 or 7 days – indeed, from blogging in general, and I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of [...]