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Cook the Book: Salt Cod and Potato Casserole

March 23, 2013

  In a previous post, I reviewed one of the books that made me yearn for the world to stop for like, hum, a year (?) just so I could cook my days away: Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America by Maricel E. Presilla. The definitive, encyclopedic resource for latin food lovers, it [...]

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Book review: Gran Cocina Latina (with recipes!)

February 24, 2013

    Disclosure: A shortened review of this book was submitted to Food52 as part of its “Community Picks” Contest. I didn’t win, but this reviewer did. Couldn’t have said it better myself. My hometown of Montreal is the furthest thing imaginable from a Latin American food mecca. Our summer is too short to grow [...]

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Québec is cooking: Scrumptious Turkish meze & salsa

February 4, 2012

  Own-up time: I had multiple posts planned to launch the new year. I wanted to talk to you about eggs, French toast, raisin bread and, best of all, my fave iPad apps (thanks to Monsieur for the Christmas present). Then, family issues got in the way. Forgive me for not expounding, I’m a little [...]

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Québec is cooking: Octopus Salad

January 7, 2012

Our family has a thing for octopus. As in we love it, tenderly so. In a salad or a stirfry, roasted on the barbecue, name it, one look at those tentacles and we are primed for a group hug. From the Sichuan Octopus at Chinatown’s Chuan Xiang Qing (top photograph but maybe closed?) to the [...]

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Québec is cooking: Quickie ratatouille

February 9, 2011

Our family is ratatouille-obsessed from kid to dad. For my 4 year-old, Ratatouille is first and foremost a cute rat who, nothing there, cooks in a grand Paris restaurant. He has watched the movie so often that whenever he sees anything resembling the Eiffel Tower, say a church spire or power line tower, he squeals: [...]

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Cooking Italy: Chicken Fricassee

October 25, 2010

I have made it. My 3rd post for the Cooking Italy club, and on time to boot. This week’s challenge was easy, courtesy of Marcella Hazan’s Chicken Fricassee. When I told hubby that I was making chicken again, he rolled his eyes (he’s not found of chicken if it’s not in a nugget, that’s the [...]

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Cream of two tomato and fennel soup

April 7, 2010

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 [...]

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My scottiglia (Rabbit and sausage stew)

April 3, 2010

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 [...]

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Cooking Italy: Shrimp with Chile and Tomato

March 7, 2010

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 [...]