Welcome back to Les Petits Chefs. This term, we’re “cooking the books” Yes, given my stance on why kids don’t need their own cookbooks and why I believe they can cook most anything from any cookbook given the right guidance and hot on the heels of their foray into recipes from The Smitten Kitchen and [...]

Les Petits Chefs Cook the Books: Supergrains (and the 10 Days, 10 Grains Supergrains challenge for Random House Canada)

French Fridays with Dorie: Warm scallop salad with corn, nectarines and basil
Hmmmm….. we were all a little dubious of this week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe (Warm Scallop Salad with Corn, Nectarines and Basil, p 320-321). I mean, all the components on their own are wonderful but together they sounded odd. But if Dorie says it will work, it generally does. Considered “exotic” by Dorie’s French [...]

French Fridays with Dorie: Corn pancakes
It’s going to be a short and sweet French Fridays with Dorie this week. I made this week’s recipe – Corn Pancakes (p 337) – ages ago as a quick dinner that I served with a salad. An interesting recipe with just eggs, flour and corn, I wasn’t sure how they would turn out and [...]

French Fridays with Dorie: Corn soup
This week’s French Fridays with Dorie was an easy one. So easy that I was able to make it in about 30 minutes from start to finish. I loved that I could use fresh Ontario corn and that it didn’t require any fancy ingredients – corn, carrots, celery, onions, garlic, milk and water. The stripped [...]








