Mardi Michels The Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi for this week is a simple sweet tart crust filled with a brown sugar custard filling – not unlike a pecan pie though, curiously Dorie adds bacon to this one for a sweet and salty version. I halved the sweet tart dough recipe and made two … Read more
Originally posted on Mushrooms Canada It’s finally starting to feel like winter in Toronto and there’s nothing I love more on a chilly evening than a big bowl of comfort food. Trouble is, comfort food can sometimes heavy, so today, I’ve got a favourite comfort food dish for you – re-imagined and lightened with added … Read more
Last summer I had the pleasure of visiting the lovely town of Vic-Fezensac in the neighbouring (to the Lot-et-Garonne where Nérac is located) Gers department on market day. Eleanor, my good friend from VivreinFrance who runs market cooking classes (a visit to the market and a cooking class, all en français) invited me to tag … Read more
I was thrilled to welcome Vanessa Yeung back to work with the boys this week. She has come to teach the boys twelve times before (she’s a legend!) and is known in Petits Chefs circles for her amazing dumplings (actually she’s known all around Toronto for those – her stands at food events consistently sell … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is all sorts of good. These are the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever had. I don’t even bake and I NEED this recipe Just a couple of the comments about Kerrin’s Multigrain Cookies from my colleagues who finished a large plate of them well before … Read more
A book by Dorie Greenspan, all about butter? Sign me up! But not just any book about butter – a Short Stack Edition! Short Stack is a series of small-format, single-subject cookbook booklets by America’s top culinary talents. Each edition offers “ingenious new ways to cook our favorite ingredients” and contains 20 to 25 recipes … Read more