Today is a very special day – 3/14 – the best excuse of the year to make pie! So in honour of pi day, I share below my five favourite pies from last year. May your days be filled with delicious pie! – Catherine Tourtiere - Easily my favourite savoury pie, this traditional Quebecois meat [...]
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Happy Pi Day!
Posted in Canadian Food, Chocolate, Classic, Comfort Food, Cranberries, Fruit, Holidays, Nuts, Pastry, Pie, Pumpkin, tagged Chocolate, cranberries, Dessert, hazelnut, holidays, Pi Day, pistachios, Pumpkin pie, Raspberries, spiced pumpkin pie, tourtière, whipping cream, White Chocolate on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tourtière
Posted in Beef, Canadian Food, Comfort Food, Pie, Pork, tagged family, flaky crust, ground pork and beef, meat pie, quebecois, tortiere, tourtière, traditional on January 15, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A few of my family and friends have begun to complain about the lack of Canadian cuisine on a blog partially dedicated to Canadian food! I plan to remedy this over the next few months, but for now, I leave you with a recipe for tourtière, a delightful Quebecois dish. True tourtière lovers are passionate about [...]
Wishing you a very Happy New Year from Gourm(eh?)!
Posted in Appetizer, Aspargus, Baking, Blind baking, Canadian Food, Cheese, Chocolate, Classic, Comfort Food, Dessert, Eggplant, Herbs, Indian Food, Nuts, Pasta, Pastry, Pumpkin, Soup, Spinach, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter, tagged Best of 2011 on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hard to imagine that 2012 has arrived! 2011 has flashed by quicker than either of us expected, and both of us have loved writing entries for gourm(eh?). Neither of us could guess how rewarding this blog would prove to be. We are so grateful for our reader’s supports and comments, and hope you will [...]
White Chocolate Cranberry Tart with Toasted Pistachios
Posted in Blind baking, Canadian Food, Chocolate, Christmas, Cranberries, Nuts, Pastry, tagged Christmas, citrus, cranberries, pistachios, shortbread, tart, White Chocolate on December 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
With Christmas lights sparkling on the street, I was recently inspired to make a fancy Christmas desert. It is a truth universally acknowledged that The Three Tarts Bakery makes some of the most divine tarts in Ottawa, and one of my particular favourites is their white chocolate cranberry pistachio tart. This tart recipe, which infuses orange [...]
Blueberry-apple cobbler with cardamom
Posted in Apples, Baking, Canadian Food, Cinnamon, Comfort Food, Dessert, Fruit, Recipe, Winter, tagged apples, Blueberries, cardamom, cobbler, Dessert, Recipe on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just this fall, I have made endless desserts with apples – and I have been challenging myself to make a different one each time. The most difficult thing about that is the fact that most of the time I only have a short period of time in which to make these, so inevitably, that reduces [...]
Mini apple crumble pies, granola-style
Posted in Apples, Baking, Blind baking, Canadian Food, Cinnamon, Classic, Comfort Food, Dessert, Fruit, Nuts, Pastry, Pie, Recipe, Winter, tagged apple, crumble, granola, pecan, Pie on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Although this particular recipe is my own invention, it is based on an idea my mother came up with. And the best part is that it’s more delicious, easier, and more novel than the usual crumble (well, perhaps not after this post – but I’m ok with that). With this dessert, not only do you [...]
Pumpkin scones
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Breakfast Food, Canadian Food, Cinnamon, Comfort Food, Holidays, Nuts, Pumpkin, Recipe, tagged autumn, breakfast, brunch, delicious, Pumpkin, Recipe, scones, Thanksgiving on October 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Looking through the last dozen posts we’ve made, I see we’re really doing well in sharing seasonal recipes! This is yet another one in that category – I can’t help but keep eating pumpkin and squash, because it is delicious and versatile; and, especially, because starting in one month I will not be eating many [...]
Gnocchi with a Thanksgiving flare: kuri squash gnocchi with sage brown butter
Posted in Canadian Food, Holidays, Italian, Pasta, Potatoes, tagged Brown butter, delicious, gnocchi, kuri squash, pasta, Recipe, sage, special meal, Thanksgiving on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For the past several years, I have embraced coming up with new or unusual ways to cook traditional foods usually eaten at and around Thanksgiving. Like Catherine, Thanksgiving is also a favourite holiday of mine. The brilliant colours around me remind me of the changing seasons, and this year, they remind me of a bountiful [...]
Beet-goat cheese spirals with toasted hazelnuts
Posted in Apéritif, Appetizer, beets, Canadian Food, Herbs, Nuts, Recipe, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter, tagged appetizer, beets, goat cheese, hazelnuts, herbs, Recipe, twist on October 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Lately, I’ve been having a lot of fun playing a sort of cooking puzzle: the kind of game where I look at everything in my fridge and try to come up with interesting and delicious ideas which are not necessarily based on any pre-existing recipes (at least that I’ve seen). In this particular case, the [...]
Apple Sauce
Posted in Apples, Canadian Food, Cinnamon, Snacks, tagged Annapolis valley, apple picking, Apple sauce, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, healthy snack, snack on October 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The last time I made apple sauce was when I was about 10. I was at my cottage for Thanksgiving. My grandmother, having put the turkey in the oven, decided she needed some foliage to liven the table, so we went for a walk with a few of my cousins. We happened across an apple [...]
