Cookbook Contest: We have a winner!
Congratulations to Caroline Masson from Cuisine2.ca who won the À la bonne franquette cookbook. She owes one to her grand-mother who inspired her as a kid with her delicious spaghetti with sausage recipe… Sounds good to me. Come back later this week since, with the contest over, I’m back to cooking cherished family [...]
Québec is cooking: In my test kitchen
English blogs that test recipes for you are a dime a dozen. From Cookthebook.ca to Magazine Mondays Club and food blogs that “adapt” recipes from both books and magazines (think SmittenKitchen.com), many bloggers provide opinion, insight and recipes from recent publications. In Quebec, I have found no such equivalent. Yet we publish many cookbooks and [...]
Glenfiddich: On discovering scotch
I knew next to nothing about scotch. Worse still, I didn’t care for it. So when Glenfiddich invited me to a scotch-and-food tasting as part of their Canadian tour, let’s just say they were not preaching to the converted, but to the curious, ah yes. Which explains why, on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, I found [...]
You say apple, I say ice cider
Agrotourism: Vergers Lacroix Leaves have started falling and so have apples. Both “Week-ends de Rougemont” in Montérégie and “Pommes en fête” apple festival in the Laurentians wound down last weekend, although it is still possible to visit, pick or simply buy homemade apple products on site. I went apple picking on both Montreal’s South and [...]
Cooking Italy: Celebrating pear season
Be still my heart. I have finally made it to my second post for the Cooking Italy Club, the foodie haven devoted to the cuisine of the great Marcella Hazan. In my defense, I have been redoing my website, learning how to point and shoot with the new Canon Rebel (playing with the ISO button [...]
Do you have the soul of a locavore?
Agrotourism: The Oka Abbey Store So you are planning a last ditch foray to the countryside for a bit of apple-a-pickin’ with family or friends? Why stop there when so many fine shops punctuate the roadside, welcoming you with a veritable bounty of homemade delicacies for the locavore in you. Case in point: The Oka [...]
Quickie chicken and date “tagine”
At least once a month, I save the day with this recipe. THE recipe. My go-to saviour, so delicious that I even serve it to company in a rush. Friends usually leave with the recipe too. A fake tagine, you might say, ready in 30 minutes or so and bursting with deep flavours despite the [...]
On being a cookbook ghost writer
Fall 2009 — Here I was, at Ô Chalet Restaurant near Montreal’s CBC tower, celebrating with a good friend and colleague the launch of 100 recettes, 100 vedettes Centraide, my third collective cookbook as a ghost writer. From Cercles de Fermières’ Qu’est-ce qu’on mange ? cookbook to TV show Des kiwis et des hommes’ culinary [...]
Once upon a squash. Or 2. Or 10.
Agrotourism: Madame La Courge When fall comes to Montreal, apple lovers and friends can usually be found stuck in traffic as they escape to the Rougemont or Laurentians orchards for a basketful of fresh air and an orgy of apple nibbling, picking and tractor a-ridin’. Since Junior’s daycare had already planned such an outing, our [...]
Two-cheese giardiniera pasta
Becoming a mom means you will learn to cook pasta 1001 ways since kids loooove starchy foods. That’s because: 1) starch has a fairly sweet yet neutral taste; and 2) it relieves hunger pangs faster than any other food, something munchkins quickly catch on to. Mind you, anything that fills you up pronto clinches the [...]
Almost no-garlic garlic butter
It’s lobster season. And although I had no expectation as to kiddo’s open-mindedness, impossible to resist the need to broaden his horizons. So on a rainy Saturday afternoon, we jumped into the car, headed for Homard des Iles in Saint-Eustache, a suburb of Montreal. Yes, you heard right, a direct-sale outlet in the middle of [...]
Crockpot kielbasa with apple and potato
I hear you. You are silently wondering who would ever dream of taking out the crockpot just as spring has finally arrived, bringing with it veggie — not comfort food — cravings. Especially since winter came and went without said crockpot ever leaving its shelf. Monsieur labels it my rebellious side. Duh. So why exactly [...]
Curried cream of cauliflower and apple soup with saffron
Soup-Soupe Trilogy: To post or not to post all the comforting homemade soups I served my half-pint? Probably not. Which is why you are reading the latest-last instalment of my weekly trilogy (yes, you heard right, 3 soups in 1 week, soupy little bugger wouldn’t you say). For each soup, I played up different vegetables [...]
Cream of two tomato and fennel soup
Soup Take 2: The Cream of Vegetable Saga goes on with Junior still enamoured with soup & baguette suppers. And mama gratefully cooking great batches of the stuff. So much for Deceptively Delicious, let the vegetables reign! Since the half-pint has a thing for pasta in rosée sauce, admittedly, this cream of tomato soup was [...]
My scottiglia (Rabbit and sausage stew)
I discovered scottiglia thanks to a recipe book by Québec cook Stefano Faita, Entre cuisine et quincaillerie (translation: Between hardware store and kitchen). The Faitas own Dante Hardware Store, one of Montreal’s quaintest establishments, where clients can find trendy European cookware, hunting rifles…but no hardware knickknacks, despite the name. Scottiglia is a Tuscan-style stew combining [...]
Cream of carrot and sweet potato soup with ginger
Halleluia! Junior is slowly emerging from his “peanut butter toast obsession” and moving on to cream of vegetable soup with lots of crusty French bread. Hold while I pinch myself, yes, you heard me… vegetable! Any mother’s favourite word when not preceded by “hates his”. So said mother (moi) is more than happy to cook [...]
Maple pecan coleslaw
A word from the cook: Yes, I do cook more complex recipes. But this blog is more about the day-to-day challenges of a busy mom who wants to cook home food despite a crazazy schedule. So the recipes to be found here are easy on purpose. _________________ Variation on coleslaw: Québec-style Theoretically speaking, I am [...]
Introduction please?
Here is. Another food blog. As if. As if the web does not already serve multiple offerings of de•li•cious•ness. As if a simple click does not unleash a “tsunami of free recipes” (the expression is not mine, it was penned by food writer and personal fave Michael Ruhlman). As if the suburban mom of a [...]
Cooking Italy: Shrimp with Chile and Tomato
Please meet Cooking Italy’s most delinquent member, me. This wonderful cooking club is dedicated to the earthy Italian cuisine of the great Marcella Hazan. Every month, 4 recipes or so from Hazan’s Essentials of Italian Cuisine are tested by club members who then post the results online. Wonderful cooks and bloggers from all over the [...]
Radio: Bien dans son assiette
In April 2012, I gave French CBC radio show Bien dans son assiette a 10-minute interview about a topic few dare to discuss: cookbook ghostwriting. One of the many hats I wear as a food writer, actually. Although fans would like to believe famous chefs write their own books, most do not. And if [...]
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