This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be sharing book recommendations – a series of “not just cookbooks”. I’ve got a feel-good French read for this week’s #summerreads instalment by one of my favourite Francophile authors – Gillian Harvey. The Riviera House Swap releases tomorrow, June 11th! From the publisher: Nina has … Read more
This week was the final Les Petits Chefs baking club for the school year and we went all out and made CHOUX PASTRY! Despite what many people think. choux pastry is one of the easiest pastries and it has a VERY good ROI – as in, low fuss, forgiving recipe with super impressive results! It’s … Read more
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be sharing book recommendations – a series of “not just cookbooks”. As soon as I saw that Janet Skeslien Charles had a new book coming out, I immediately requested it from the Toronto Public Library. I must have got lucky because shortly after Skeslien Charles’ … Read more
This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club we made Strawberry Cheesecake Cake Cups – an easy, no-bake dessert that’s a riff on a recipe I shared last year. That recipe uses mascarpone and a strawberry sauce where you cook the strawberries but today’s recipe is simplified a little – using cream cheese and a … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. I got my picks of the recipes this month because it’s my birthday so it’s ALL about choux this month (we made Cream Puffs with Crackle and Cream for the first recipe this month). This week we made Gouga Gougères. Now I’m no stranger … Read more
This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club, we made muffins! Primarily because last weekend I had excess blueberries and bananas at my house and wanted to use them up so some food-waste avoidance became recipe testing for this session with the students! I riffed on my easy banana chocolate chip muffin recipe and subbed … Read more