This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and makes the most of the (fading) summer tomatoes and peaches… Dorie says: Like so many good traditional dishes, panzanella was born of thrift, created as a way to use stale bread. It’s an Italian salad that has toured … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is a favourite both in our house and in my cooking club for boys, Les Petits Chefs. So much so that when I realised that clubs were starting on Monday this week and that I wouldn’t know who was in the club (i.e. how many … Read more
Image © Kyla Zanardi My students LOVE to make crêpes (it’s part of a research project I do with my Grade 4s every year) and the boys in my cooking club tested the recipe which appears in In the French kitchen with kids (it really helped me with writing the recipe directions, watching how kids … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is a simple cookie that happens to be naturally gluten-free that tastes so much better than it looks! Dorie says: After tasting cookies like these in French and Italian bakeries, I spent a lot of time trying to make them at home — time well spent. … Read more
It started with a 12km run a few weeks ago in Nérac… Contrary to what you might think, I don’t eat croissants, chocolatines and viennoiseries every day for breakfast when I’m in France. But you can bet that when I’ve knocked out 12km before the market visit, I will be! On that last market visit … Read more
En route home from France this summer, we took advantage of a flight path we discovered last year – Bordeaux>Dublin>Toronto – and instead of just doing a quick airport stopover like we did last summer, this year we stayed a few nights in Dublin. Neil had never been and the last time I was there … Read more