This week we were so very fortunate to welcome back Joanne Lusted, a chef and recipe developer who hosted the healthy cooking segment “Dish Do-Over” on CBC’s Steven and Chris for many years. She is also the co-host of Cottage Life Television’s Compete to Eat and published her first cookbook, “Dish Do-Over” in 2014. Joanne’s […]
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Les Petits Chefs make hot sauce with Rossy Earle
The Petits Chefs worked with Rossy Earle this week to create one of everyone’s favourite condiments – hot sauce! Rossy’s the queen of hot sauce (her Diabo’s Fuego sauce is used in many restaurants around Toronto) so I was really happy when she said it was “do-able” in an hour! I know many of the […]
Les Petits Chefs make Jamie Oliver’s Skinny Carbonara from Everyday Super Food
This term with the Petits Chefs, as well as working with guest chefs, the boys get to work… with me! I love these weeks because it gives me a chance to really work with the boys closely and teach them some of my favourite recipes. This week I decided to show them one of my […]
Les Petits Chefs make Aloo Tiki with Shayma Saadat
This week, the Petits Chefs were lucky enough to work with Shayma Saadat again. We’ve worked with Shayma a couple of times before; once when she taught the boys to make Afghan dumplings and last fall, when we made Saffron Potato Fritters which the boys LOVED (hello, fried potatoes!). Shayma is an internationally published food […]
Les Petits Chefs make David Lebovitz’s Chocolate-Covered Caramelized Matzoh (and Saltine) Crunch
The Petits Chefs are back for Term 3! We started this week with a timely recipe for some of our boys – a “Passover favourite” as one of my friends told me. When I was planning the term, I noticed that Easter and Passover both fell in the same week so I wanted to give […]
How to make crème caramel (video)
Last term some of you might have followed the Petits Chefs testing some recipes from my cookbook which was a one of the best decisions I could have made in the rather challenging recipe testing stage of writing a cookbook. Watching your exact target audience make a dish following your method was really useful for […]
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