Thrifty recipes for shrewd cooks! Simple, everyday ideas to make your meals and your money go further. Traditional dishes from my childhood in France, plus great food places in and around Sussex. It's not just the food you cook, it's the day you make of it!
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It all started with a conversation on rivercottage forum about "good v cheap olive oil" with someone called badbadger.
Comparing the merits of various olive oil reminded me about my grand dad's lovely "gateau mousse" made without any butter, but with olive oil and white wine instead.
Sunday lunch when I was little.
Generally at my grand parents, my parents or my uncle and auntie. A whole 2 miles away from each other 
. We'd meet at noon, sit down for a couple of round of aperetifs with various nibbles
We used to live just outside the village,
in a new built house that saw 3 successive extensions in 10 years. To accomodate our growing family: 4 girls NEED a lot of room. There's all the clothes, the dress up stuff, the riding gear, the magazines, the pushbikes, the "grocery store" (ALL pink of course...yeuck!
) with all the boxes of supplies carefully kept and cellotaped by mum,
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