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 »
Moroccan-Inspired Stuffed Acorn Squash
Posted in Chickpeas, Cranberries, Curry, squash, Winter, tagged chickpeas, cranberries, cumin, curried butternut squash soup, ground chicken, Moroccan, spices, squash on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This time of year, the market is beginning to look pretty scarce. Beside brussel sprouts, green vegetables are rumoured to exist. And as much as I love turnips and beets, there are only so many one can eat before you are craving something a little more exciting. This is when the humble squash begins to [...]
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 [...]
Fresh Cranberry Orange Sauce
Posted in Cranberries, Holidays, Sauce, tagged Cranberry sauce, orange, Thanksgiving, Turkey on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Turkey dinner just isn’t turkey without the cranberry sauce. It adds pizazz to turkey and stuffing, not to mention leftover turkey sandwiches. And who doesn’t love how the ruby-coloured sauce dazzles on your plate? A well-kept secret is that cranberry sauce could not be easier to make. As a kid, there was always [...]
