France - Something I Made

Big Baguette

This is one of the first things I made while we were in France. It seems like people there don't get bread like we are used to in NZ (sliced etc) but buy their bread fresh every day. It was super common to see people walking around with several baguettes under their arm, or in the basket of their bicycle so we figured that we should get in on the action.

I filled this baguette with some wholegrain mustard, lettuce, capsicum, red onion, tomato and Camembert cheese. It was a bit hard to squeeze everything in but it was worth it! The ends were a bit crisp so I avoided those but between us Quentin and I managed to finish the whole thing (helped by the bottle of wine in the picture!) and this ended up being the first of many big baguettes to come with various fillings.

I would totally recommend doing this at home if you are going on a picnic or something because the baguette bread is less likely to go soggy and you can just cut it up to feed however many people you have. Plus it is delicious. Quentin said it was his favourite food of the whole Europe trip, although he may have forgotten he also said that about the pizza in Italy.