Five Euro Food

Blanquette de Veau (French Veal Ragout)

Charles — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:21 +0000

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 actually regulated, [...]

Stuffed Bread Rolls

Charles — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:00:37 +0000

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 The ones I originally made were stuffed with paneer and [...]

Ode to a Cupcake

Charles — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:00:01 +0000

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 else again. What I want to know [...]

Easy Vegetarian Gravy

Charles — Sun, 05 May 2013 07:00:43 +0000

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 the 1st and the next [...]

Baked Eggs ‘n’ Gravy

Charles — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:00:39 +0000

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 you get to meet a [...]

Moules Frites

Charles — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:00:07 +0000

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 restaurants, I should add). I’ll spare you the [...]

Cottage Cheese and Parsley Scones

Charles — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:00:26 +0000

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 on the hungry side you will [...]

[Baby & Toddler] Kidney Bean Purée

Charles — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:00:59 +0000

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 [...]

The “Waste-not-want-not” Soup

Charles — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:00:35 +0000

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 reveal to you [...]

Old recipes revisited and some vacation photos

Charles — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:00:13 +0000

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 [...]

Typically British: The Victoria Sponge

Charles — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:00:23 +0000

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 wrote there about many countries having their own [...]

Äppelkaka (Swedish Apple Cake)

Charles — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:00:40 +0000

Serves: Makes ~8 slices Cost: ~€1.30 Preparation and cooking time: ~50 minutes Calories: ~215 per slice Hi folks, this post is coming to you today from glorious England. The dish featured today was made back in France, but I’m in my homeland right now for a couple of weeks of glorious vacation. Spending time with family, visiting some of [...]

Gardener’s Sandwich – a.k.a Vegetarian Shooter’s Sandwich

Charles — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:00:56 +0000

Serves: 4-6 Cost: ~€4.70 Preparation and cooking time: ~40 minutes + 24 hours Calories: ~680 per quarter Hi everyone. All being well, this time next week I’ll be in England but that certainly doesn’t mean I’ll be absent. I’ll be sticking to my regular posting schedule and showing you some photos of my travels along the way. I’ve got [...]

Shrimp and Ginger stuffed Salmon Parcels

Charles — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:00:51 +0000

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 wife was taking [...]

Home-made Herbs and Spices: Celery Leaf

Charles — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:27:28 +0000

Serves: n/a Cost: €0 Preparation and cooking time: ~4 hours Calories: n/a So, I thought I’d start a little post series which I can add to as the weeks go by. Home-made herbs and spices… but I’m not talking about spice mixes – like a jerk chicken rub. No no, these posts are all about making new herbs yourself, [...]

Awesome brine for awesome Roast Beef

Charles — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:00:09 +0000

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 though. I found that my old [...]

Coconut Rum-flavoured Plain and White Nama Chocolate

Charles — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:00:28 +0000

Serves: n/a Cost: ~€4.80+ Preparation and cooking time: ~20 minutes + 24 hours Calories: ~60 per piece The wonderful Nami, from JustOneCookbook published a delightful recipe last year for Valentine’s Day which brought so many memories flooding back to me. I vowed to make this chocolatey goodness, but as is often the case – time passed and I forgot all [...]

Orange Curd

Charles — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:00:24 +0000

Serves: Makes ~2 jars Cost: ~€1.90 Preparation and cooking time: ~40 minutes Calories: ~54 per 1tbsp Howdy folks, I was actually going to post something else completely different today but then I made this recently and I got all excited about it so I figured why not post this today instead. This is a continuation from my lemon curd post [...]

Hand-cooked Beetroot Chips

Charles — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:00:42 +0000

Serves: n/a Cost: €3.20 Preparation and cooking time: ~40 mins Calories: ~280 calories per 100g Well, I’ve learned my lesson from my last post. I’ll stick to “regular” ingredients this time. There was no shortage of visitors who seemed to think that I was mad enough to stuff a load of minced beef into apples, top it with sugar, [...]

Mincemeat Stuffed Baked Apples

Charles — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:00:19 +0000

Serves: 3 Cost: < €1 if using leftover mincemeat Preparation and cooking time: ~1 hour Calories: ~320 per serving We’ve finally nailed down the details of a little trip we’re going to take in the middle of March, and where, might you wonder will we be going? Ah – nowhere too far afield. England is the destination [...]