A couple of weeks ago, Les Petits Chefs baking club ventured into working with choux pastry (some of them for the first time!). Choux pastry is the base for cream puffs (profiteroles), éclairs and cheese puffs (gougères), and many people find it intimidating, but actually, it couldn’t be easier! For this session, we worked with … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, Les Petits Chefs baking club worked with sweet shortcrust pastry – always a popular item to work with because “it’s just like Play Doh, only tastier” 😉 Lots of people are intimidated by pastry but it’s actually much easier than you think and kids, particularly, are fearless, so they just … Read more
Ok, that looks good, huh? Sure but how about this? Yes! Cooking club is back… virtually! After last term when I ran two very successful online cooking clubs for my students each week from April – June then 7 weeks of cooking camp in the summer, adding some online public cooking classes too, school is … Read more
It was about 3 weeks into distance teaching when I found myself finally in some sort of routine. For the first little while there, not only was I completely jetlagged but also was sort of thinking the teaching from home scenario would last a month at most. I figured as long as I was online … Read more
Happy French Friday! Today I’m sharing a dish that is completely Covid-pantry friendly, easy to make (so easy that the kids can make it) and a delicious comfort dish for this “in between” season we seem to be having here in Toronto. It’s the Gratin de Pâtes au Jambon (Cheesy Pasta Bake) from In the … Read more
Ah… it’s been a while since I shared posts about little hands cooking. Obviously with school moved to distance learning, cooking club in-person had to take a bit of a break 🙁 And now we’re nearly 6 weeks into this “new normal” (with 5 weeks of school to go), and I’m kind of settled into … Read more