This week, the Petits Chefs were lucky to welcome Adell Shneer back into the lab this week for one of our favourite guest chef sessions – decorating sugar cookies. This was her TENTH visit to to work with the boys in cooking club and this time she taught a new generation of boys – a […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Le Cheesecake Round Trip
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was a simple baked cheesecake, so named “le round trip” because Dorie’s been known to cart ingredients to make it on both sides of the Atlantic (Paris and New York). I didn’t have the spice cookies Dorie calls for in the base and I’m trying […]
Cook the Book Fridays: Gougères from Everyday Dorie
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie, which released this week and I’m excited to say that the Cook the Book Fridays crew will be cooking our way through it starting today! From the publisher: To the hundreds of thousands who follow her on Twitter, Instagram, […]
Les Petits Chefs bake Mairlyn Smith’s Grab n Go Breakfast Cookies (and some thoughts on cooking with kids)
You know you’ve been busy in cooking club when you’ve only got a handful of photos/ videos to show for your afternoon’s work! Sometimes cooking with kids needs you to be 100% “on” and completely focussed on what’s happening in the pans/ bowls in order to ensure a successful result! This week we made a […]
In the French kitchen with kids – an update!
Over the past nearly three months (!) as In the French kitchen with kids has made its way out into the world, I’ve been so excited to see people cooking up a storm from the book and sharing their creations – check out Instagram and the #intheFrenchkitchenwithkids hashtag to see all the action! Watch me, […]
French Fridays: Chicken Pot Parmentier from My Paris Kitchen
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was perfect for Canadian Thanksgiving which fell early this year, catching a few of us by surprise, especially given the very hot September we had. Fortunately the weather cooperated to give us a typical Thanksgiving weekend with chilly temperatures just perfect […]
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