The recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was yet another reminder of how easy it is to make your own dips – and how much more flavourful they are than most of the store bought varieties. I took a little shortcut with this recipe, simply oven-roasting the aubergines instead … Read more
It’s a quick and easy – and very pink! – recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen this week – beet hummus. It’s a quick and easy recipe that comes together in a flash (I used my mini hand blender set and it worked really well – for making smaller … Read more
This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was perfect for me to make for myself last week in France before I left for Spain. I had two tiny eggplants and I wasn’t sure what I would make with them – too small for anything really, except a micro batch … Read more
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 … Read more
The focus for this year’s Food Revolution Day was about sharing the power of cooking, the benefits of cooking from scratch and, ultimately showing people that changing our food choices can make us both healthier and happier. Instead of one official recipe as there has been in years past, this year, we have a set of … Read more
Healthy snacking. It IS possible and you CAN make your snacks from scratch, cheaper and healthier than store-bought versions. That was the lesson I wanted to teach Les Petits Chefs this week – inspired by this article by Ren Behan over on JamieOliver.com about bread, pizza and pasta with kids. Ever since I read her … Read more