Eating at restaurants
If you’re travelling for any length of time, eating at restaurants gets a little tedious and expensive. If you want to save a few dollars and aren’t interested in eating fast food or street food every day, you can save some cash by renting a room with a kitchenette. You can often find deals through websites like hotels.com (with coupons from ChameleonJohn.com) or hostelbookers.com.
The fun part about cooking for yourself in foreign cities are the markets. Markets are a great place to learn about other cultures, their local food and how to prepare it.
The first thing we do in any city is, find out where and when the markets are held and this trip is no different. From Bologna to Budapest by way of Torino, visiting markets is always a learning experience, even for a chef.
Here is a quick and easy recipe for creamed chanterelles
- 4 cups cleaned chanterelles
- olive oil
- 1/3 cup cream cheese (we used chive and Gewurztraminer cream cheese, Philadelphia Cream Cheese works well)
- salt and pepper
- Sautée over high heat so they fry and don't boil
- Add cream cheese and mix until warm and combined
- Season with salt and pepper
- Spread over pieces of toast
Beautiful pictures as always and the food you made looks seriously delicious. I may have to go break in the kitchen at my hostel and make some right now!
Quick and easy, are you in Budapest now?
Oh I love it when you include recipes, it looks fantstic.
Thanks! We’re working on including more, doesn’t always work out on the road.
I just always love your photos N&T. So delectable 🙂
Thanks Cristina! We appreciate your comments.
Just started to explore local markets down here in South America. I can’t wait to seek out the markets in Central Europe in November. Starting to go through your posts and LOVE that you include recipes.
ps- What a tiny little kitchen you have there. 😀
That tiny little kitchen was in our €35/night room in Frankfurt, a great find. Thanks for checking out our posts!