Are you a three meal a day kind of person? Or are you more of a snacker? This is a conversation I had with some of the boys in the aftercare programme last week – like me, many of them identified as “snackers”. “I like to eat a small amount of something often” declared more … Read more
Is there anything better than pizza (in the eyes of Petit Chef)? How about pizza in a portable form, without all the fuss? This week the boys were lucky to welcome Ceri Marsh of Sweet Potato Chronicles and Food Network Canada fame to the lab to cook up one of the recipes from their recent … Read more
This post is sponsored by Penotti Canada. For this month’s Penotti Canada recipe, I chose to work with the Duo Penotti Hazelnut and Vanilla Spread (which contains no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives and is made with sustainable ingredients). It has a really subtle hazelnut flavour and is fairly sweet and I enjoyed it sparingly … Read more
This post is sponsored by Gay Lea. When the brief for this month’s Gay Lea post came out (back in early July), my heart sank. Back to school? Really? It felt like we had just started summer holidays. Even now, there are still a few solid weeks of vacation left so it’s hard for me … Read more
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 … Read more
Without a doubt, some of the most popular photos on my Instagram when I travel to France are of the different flavoured chips (crisps) I sample. Chips? You ask. Seriously! People seem fascinated with all the interesting flavours. I’m not a big chip eater here in Canada – they are the sort of things that … Read more