There is a woman who does markets with a mock 'gypsy caravan' hereabouts and has a good selection including lapsang at a decent price but very small bags. If I can find one I'll drop in where her supply comes from later, it is French and at least most stuff can be found on line somewhere.
Actually ,that was the coffe site, but here is the tea one.. http://www.comptoirsrichard.fr/boutique/index.php
Valerie, the only time I see lapsang here is on the catalogue of cafe Richard. I'm not sure if they supply individuels, but it's worth a try... here is their website. Or, if you know anyone with a cafe, hotel, or resto, you might ask them to pop it on their next order.
Nah, do not like tea bags and import my tea at real prices when in Viet Nam or India. I reckon to pay about 40p for a half kilo of top grade black tea in India and far less for the green and white in VN. I buy a couple of kilos a time which lasts. It's not only Brit stuff though. I prefer Lavazza in the red and black shiney packet to all other espressos to jerk me past the first few moments of the day. Find it here and when you do have an epileptic fit gazing at the price... Stilton, well there are two market stalls, one at rip off and the other at realistic prices. The latter even has the better one plus a reasonably good Cheddar. I also eat Gorgonzola, Parmigiano and various other Italian cheeses that are extortionately expensive here, at least good ones. The stuff they do as raclette is not a patch on the Swiss version and a thrid more on the price and generally one only finds one quality of Gruyere and a mediocre one at that. All Asian spices I have had are well above the price they should be. Baked beans, my two love them with McCann's oven chips. That meal is treated like an exotic treat as easy as they are to find. We have shared with people for Sterling Shopping deliveries but it is not the same as going out to a shop and nigh on 20% charge for delivery. Great for things that are vastly cheaper that you cannot get from Amazon but food, forget it. I had a spell of only Heinz Worcestershire Sauce until I captured the regional manager on a visit and got a good supply of Lea and Perrins back on the shelf. Bacon, we have found a Franco-British farm producing their own stuff where it is available but take out a mortgage for a full kilo - mind you it is greeeeaaaattttttttttttttttt! For people who like international food, which is to say something from just about anywhere, France is amongst the worst countries in Europe. I was eating Indian food in Germany in the late 1960s (in Berlin at least) and could buy everything to cook it from scratch by mid-1970s, Spain and Portugal were not far behind and I had some of the best Japanese ever in Italy around 30 years ago and 'Chifas' were all over southern Europe by then and one believes they are all conservative about food! Nothing but their own! OK France has some cuisine to dream about but why if we go to a quine or any other occasion (e.g. forthcoming Judo club 'Christmas' dinner our little ones insist we must go to) is it always paella?
Here are the prices I have found for baked beans in my area (Volvestre, South of Toulouse):
1.22 Intermarché
1.24 Leclerc
1.43 Carrefour (hypermarket)
1.45 Carrefour Contact
These are for proper UK baked beans, but I also found big tins of 'haricots blancs en sauce tomate' which were a lot cheaper and quite alright, probably better for your health as they were less sweet: the beans were the same but the sauce was less sirupy. As for tea, we only buy Twinings Earl Grey now (but I wish I could find lapsang souchong more often).
Yep on the Lidl Earl grey, the stuff is quite wonderful in the morning.Intermarche had punjana tea, but it was "odd" tasting. I buy big bags of teabags on every trip home, and so, beans are the real problem. back in the day, I'd always have had 2 tins of beans in the cupboard at any given time "just in case", but these days, it's a luxury, and, often, when I go to get it, they're all gone,and all that's left is the heinz sausages in beanz. YUK.
Same with bacon for breakfast. Lidl have well priced bacon, but the supermarkets really take the p1ss. The problem is round the holidays,when holidaymakers come, and all the bacon is GONE from Lidl for the whole ski season.
I've asked the local boucher to slice up back bacon, but, it's never the same (not as many chemicals, I suppose)
I actually wouldn't suggest anything difficult. Start in the morning, soak the beans all day and at night put it all into the oven tightly covered at low heat to cook overnight. Voila - morning beans and afternoon power --
Has abyone experienced the companies that collect your online order from Asda and such like and deliver to France apparently 20% of the total cost of order for delivery
@ Christopher - "like"!!
@ Catherine -- yes
@ Steve - you are quite right - this is what Yorkshire tea deprivation does to the brain cells.
@ Annie - Lidl earl grey is excellent - just as good as Twinings and way cheaper too!
Sorry for such a basic question - but where can I get English style bacon? I was back in UK last month and suddenly realised I missed it more than anything else English / British.
I hate baked beans, but Marché Plus sell their own brand, Grand Jury, which are less sweet and actually nicer! LOL. Never drink builder's tea and my favourite Twinings Earl Grey is freely available here! Lidl are selling rather nice mature cheddar too.... also found some in Geant Casino at a very reasonable price.
Haricots rouge ? Don't you mean "haricots Blanc au sauce tomate " ? These are fairly horrid but Auchan/Carrefour here do have Heinz beans for about 1€.
Our local Halles Dis sells haricots in tomato sauce which are really pretty OK and MUCH CHEAPER than Heinz. Not the white beans in tomato sauce. About 1 euro I think. I'm looking for a good supplier of Brit cheese by post from England. It's not that we don't use local cheese too.
But seriously - thanks for the recipe!
@ Christopher - do I look like wonderwoman....:)
I found some lovely ones in Aldi, in a glass jar for about 1euro, couldn't tell the difference from Heinz. Not in stock all the time though so you have to look out for them. I know you can make them, but they are meant to be a cheap, quick treat that you can have when you haven't time or can't be bothered to cook properly. And do you really want to go to the fuss of making them in a morning because you fancy some with your eggs and bacon?
Ingredients
- 2 cups navy beans
- 1/2 pound bacon
- 1 onion, finely diced
- 3 tablespoons molasses
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
Why don't you make them?