This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and it’s a beauty! Potato Tourte is a double-crusted puff pastry pie filled with thinly sliced potatoes, some herbs and seasonings. Simple ingredients baked to golden perfection and then, just when you think it couldn’t get any better, you … Read more
This term the Petits Chefs are cooking our way through a series of cookbooks and this week, we cooked from Oven to Table. I’ll be writing a full review of this new book from my friend Jan Scott’s latest book very soon but in the meantime I’ve been cooking from it a lot at home … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was Moroccan Semolina and Almond Cookies. Dorie says: It was a picture in a French magazine that won my heart and set me to dreaming about what these cookies would be like. In the picture, the sugar-coated cookies were cracked — I later learned that in … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen is a classic bistro dish – leeks with bacon-mustard vinaigrette. And by “classic” we mean it really should not be messed with. As in, the bacon is a David addition. His partner, Romain, raised his eyebrows when he first say David … Read more
This term the Petits Chefs are cooking our way through a series of cookbooks and this week, we used Brunch Life. I can’t think of a better duo to write a cookbook featuring brunch recipes than Matt Basile and Kyla Zanardi. At the helm of Toronto’s Fidel Gastro (food truck/ Lisa Marie restaurant) for many … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was one I had a little difficulty with. “Almond Stripes” are a sort of piped out shortbread cookie made with almond meal, kind of like these Viennese Sablés we made last year except that I couldn’t for the life of me pipe them out (I … Read more