Carrot and Mustard "Rillettes" on taosted baguette with a small bown of spread.

Cook the Book Fridays: Carrot and Mustard “Rillettes” from Everyday Dorie

This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie and is intriguingly named Carrot and Mustard “Rillettes. When I think “rillettes” I think of a meaty spread (“pork immersed in fat and cooked almost forever”) much like the many versions we’ve made before cooking through Dorie and David’s books … Read more

Gluten-free carrot cake cookies filled with cream cheese frosting on a sheet of parchment paper.

Carrot cake cookies

Today’s recipe is a result of stumbling across an old post on my blog (like, REALLY OLD, from April 2010!) where I had written about making the “Inside Out Carrot Cake Cookies” from Epicurious and I remembered how much I loved them. You know, sometimes you want a piece of carrot cake but making a … Read more

Curried coconut carrot and pumpkin soup in a bowl on a blue and white napkin

Curried coconut carrot and pumpkin soup

A quick little post today to share a winner of a soup I came up with last week… What do you do when you’ve got some leftover pumpkin purée and a load of carrots you forgot to roast? Make soup! It’s definitely soup weather here in Toronto and there’s nothing better on a chilly night … Read more

Cook the Book Fridays: Sweet and smoky roasted carrots from Everyday Dorie

This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and was one I made just before leaving on vacation with some gorgeous heirloom carrots that needed eating in my quest to clean out the fridge! Dorie says: If you love smoked paprika, the odds are high that you’ll … Read more

Kids cook with Dorie Greenspan and Mardi Michels on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Everyday Dorie in action (aka: that time Dorie Greenspan cooked with my cooking club!)

Um, yeah. That’s Dorie Greenspan. In my STEM lab. With my Grade 3 cooking club boys (and my Grade 9 helper). Having just cooked fried rice from Everyday Dorie with us (in an hour!). Wow, right? If you’d asked me 10 years ago where I thought I might be on December 5th 2018, I doubt … Read more