Québec is cooking: Hearty soups with a twist!

  Should you take a trip down memory line and visit this blog’s archive, you will discover quite a few cream of vegetable soups, courtesy of my picky eaters. Soup has long been a necessary means to an end around these parts as I try to entice kiddo to eat his vegetables. Add a chunk [...]

Cookbook: À la bonne franquette 2

My new cookbook is here!

  It is finally here. The second edition of my À la bonne franquette book has landed at last, updated and expanded to 120, count’em, 120 Québec chefs in all!     Regular readers of this blog may remember that, in 2010, I published the first À la bonne franquette with the help of 80 [...]

Canadian Cookbook Awards: À la bonne franquette wins the Silver!

Last Monday November 7, the 2011 Canadian Culinary Book Awards were held in Toronto. Laid low by my first-ever asthma attack (!), I learned that my book À la bonne franquette had won a silver medal in the Canadian Culinary Culture Award from my bed in a downtown Toronto hotel. The kind of news that [...]

La Presse: We make the 2010 year in review

    In January 2011, Québec daily La Presse asked leading chefs their take on the year past as well as upcoming trends. What did they eat and read, what would they be cooking next? Thank you to chef-owner Danny St-Pierre of Auguste in Sherbrooke for singling out the meatloaf he graciously offered the readers [...]

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 [...]

Contest: Win a cookbook

Confession time: I am so bogged down with work that I have no time to cook, much less blog about it. So to keep my readers happy, how about I deliver on that Contest I promised you here a while back? Last October, my 4th book as a ghost writer of chef recipe collections came [...]

Mac’n Cheez Whiz. Yessir.

When I was a kid, my mom would often serve me my best food: Velveeta Spaghetti. Cooked pasta mixed with 1 can of Campbell’s Tomato Soup for sauce and enough Velveeta Cheese to make the creamiest, cheesiest, richest mac’n cheese you could dream of. I’d eat at least two plates of it, then return before [...]

Cookbook: À la bonne franquette

Concept and contents development, selection and sollicitation of 100 or so Quebec chefs, coordination with 16 tourism associations to secure copy fact check and photographic content, recipe editing and turnkey copywriting Publishers: Éditions Transcontinental

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 [...]