It’s finally here – release day! I know, I KNOW… it feels like FOREVER that I’ve been going on about this book (believe me, I know how long it feels, this process!) but today’s the official on-sale date (although lots of people have had their books shipped already)! Over the past couple of weeks, a … Read more
Welcome to French Fridays where I’m excited to share another video in the series of kids making dishes from my cookbook (eeep – it’s out NEXT WEEK!). Last year, you might remember that a few of the recipes from the book got mass-tested because the Grade 4 class elected to research French food and culture … Read more
Welcome to French Fridays where I’m so happy to be sharing a video of a classic French dessert (my fave… well, one of them…) – crème brûlée! This version was made by a group of my Grade 4 students as past of a research project where they choose classic French dishes and research the history … Read more
I’m lucky in my day job that I get to incorporate a lot of what I love into the everyday. French language, French culture and, of course, French food are part of my everyday and I am so grateful. My boss is very supportive of my schemes to get kids cooking en français and what … Read more
So…. you might remember the “Writing a Cookbook” timeline, part 1. The post where I explained what happened from October 2015 when I first chatted with the folks at Appetite by Random House to April 2017 when I handed in the manuscript. Soooo, right, manuscript is in – I’m done right? All finished. Yeah, right, … Read more
It was a bit of a banner day in cooking club this week – first of all, the boys welcomed a Grade 7 boy and his dad into the club (“Cook with Les Petits Chefs” was an item to bid on at last year’s holiday market at school and we’ve been waiting for an appropriate … Read more