Serves: -4 Cost: ~€8.50 Preparation and cooking time: ~1 hour Calories: ~474 per parcel This post has been a long time coming. I made this dish… well, I forget, but it was a long time ago. It was actually inspired by something we ate on New Year’s eve. Our “farewell-to-2012″ dinner was a quiet affair. My...
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Serves: Makes enough brine for a large roast Cost: ~€1.90 Preparation and cooking time: ~40 minutes Calories: ~54 per 1tbsp Brining is not something I’ve ever tried – on anything in fact. Neither pork, nor chicken, and certainly not beef. I’ve been modifying my roast beef cooking process over the past few months...
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Serves: Makes 8-12 slices Cost: ~€2.30 Preparation and cooking time: ~80 minutes Calories: ~400 per slice Greetings everyone, I hope you’re having a good Friday. For my American readers, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day yesterday. I’m back with the promised cake! It’s seemed like such a long time since...
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Serves: n/a Cost: n/a Preparation time: ~3-4 hours Calories: n/a Hi there everyone – just when I thought my guest posts were over and that I’d have to start struggling to get busy in the kitchen with a baby strapped snugly to my chest I have not one, but two wonderfully kind people writing to me asking if it’s...
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Serves: Makes ~8 x 300ml/10 fl oz jars Cost: ~€5-8 depending on cost of mangoes Preparation time: ~60 minutes + Processing time Calories: ~1100 for the whole batch Hi again everyone! Continuing on with my wonderful guest posts today I’ll be presenting to you Sissi from With A Glass. I think Sissi is one of my oldest blogging...
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Serves: n/a Cost: ~€4 Preparation time: ~12 + 1 hours Calories: ~n/a I’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 – harvesting them during the summer...
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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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