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 »
The most decadent hot chocolate in existence
Posted in Chocolate, Classic, Comfort Food, Dessert, Drinks, Holidays, Recipe, Winter, tagged Canada, Chocolate, decadent, hot chocolate, milk, Recipe, Winter on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I thought I’d perk the mood up a bit with this hot chocolate recipe, with winter approaching. I, however, will be avoiding the snow altogether in my new home in Sénégal. This situation is definitely a bit ironic: I’m one of the small number of Canadians who loves winter, as long as it is a [...]
Coquilles St. Jacques en Normandie (delicious scallops)
Posted in Appetizer, Fish, French Food, Herbs, Holidays, Recipe, Scallops, Shellfish, tagged appetizer, coquilles st. jacques, Creme fraiche, delicious, normandy, parsley, Recipe, scallops on November 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Scallops – Coquilles St. Jacques in French – are one of the family specials. In proper form, the ingredients are few: scallops, butter, cream, and parsley… The night I arrived in my family’s village supper was from 8pm till 12:30am, and even so, we had to pry ourselves away before coffee was offered because I [...]
A family affair: roast leg of lamb with garden herbs
Posted in Classic, Comfort Food, French Food, Herbs, Holidays, Lamb, Recipe, Winter, tagged dinner, famliy, france, garlic, lamb, normandy, parsley, Recipe, roast, rosemary, thyme on November 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I find myself in transit, faced by a challenging familial loss, between Canada and West Africa. We seem to all come together around food, on our tip of Normandy. I am writing this recipe to share our time together as a family in France with my brother – who had to stay in Canada. The [...]
Savoury Turkey Stuffing
Posted in Comfort Food, Holidays, tagged Joy of Cooking, Stuffing, Thanksgiving, Turkey Dinner on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My favourite Thanksgiving dish is stuffing. Bursting with flavour and never twice the same, stuffing makes turkey exciting. As a kid, my mother followed Gourmet’s Christmas 1987 recipe. Filled with pork sausage, this stuffing is absolutely decadent. This year, however, I was cooking for a dozen friends, three who followed the Halal diet and one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pumpkin Pie
Posted in Holidays, Pie, Pumpkin, tagged Pecans, Pumpkin pie, pumpkin seeds, Silver Palate, Thanksgiving on October 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Thanksgiving is perhaps my favourite holiday of the year. I love the crisp air and colourful leaves and changing of the season. More than any other holiday, I love the meaning behind this tradition – to reflect upon and give thanks for the blessings in our lives. And importantly, it’s a great excuse to cook [...]
