This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was one I’d made before a number of years ago using a different recipe. It’s reminiscent of a favorite store-bought dessert I love to eat in France… SO. GOOD. Here’s my version from a number of years ago: David’s version is […]
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Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Sesame-Sea Salt Cookies
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is a slightly sweet, slightly salty cocktail cookie that goes down well with your evening apéro. Dorie says: Black and white sesame seeds form a great-looking op-art mosaic on this cookie, no matter how you scatter them. But its true raison d’être is the taste, texture […]
Five things I learned about life from Mairlyn Smith’s Peace, Love and Fibre.
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. It’s a given that you’re going to learn a lot about fibre and how to incorporate it in your diet so you lead a long and healthy life in Mairlyn Smith’s latest book, Peace, Love & Fibre, […]
Cook the Book Fridays: Mushroom-bacon galette from Everyday Dorie
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and it’s a beauty – a tart dough made into a galette filled with leeks, mushrooms and bacon. I mean – how do you go wrong there? A galette is just a free form single layer pie/ tart and […]
Les Petits Chefs make lemon ricotta pancakes from Peace Love & Fibre with Mairlyn Smith
We were thrilled to welcome Mairlyn Smith back to the school this week to cook from her latest book, Peace, Love & Fibre. The boys have worked with Mairlyn a few times before – they’ve made butter tarts, Grab n Go cookies, and did a little improv in the kitchen too (did you know Mairlyn […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Pistachio and Raspberry Financiers
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is a favourite sweet treat – financiers. These little tea cakes are typically made with almond flour although more and more you see them made with different nuts flours – in this case, pistachios. Dorie, like me, uses mini muffin tins to make financiers in, […]
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