This term the Petits Chefs are cooking our way through a series of cookbooks and this week, we used Brunch Life. I can’t think of a better duo to write a cookbook featuring brunch recipes than Matt Basile and Kyla Zanardi. At the helm of Toronto’s Fidel Gastro (food truck/ Lisa Marie restaurant) for many […]
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Specialty cookbooks for the holidays
This is the last in my cookbook posts for the year and today I’m sharing a few fall releases that don’t fall in a neat category – kind of single subject but also books focussing on certain types of food or cooking. I challenge you to read through this list, though and not find one […]
Les Petits Chefs living their best #brunchlife with Matt Basile at Lisa Marie
It’s always a good week when “field trip to Lisa Marie” is on the agenda! The boys have worked with Matt Basile seven times over the past few years and he’s a legend in our Petits Chefs circles! He’s known as the “deep frying guy” because he always manages to weave the deep fryer into […]
Les Petits Chefs make fried chicken at Lisa Marie
The Petits Chefs were thrilled to head to Lisa Marie restaurant to cook with Matt Basile this week. Matt, chef/ owner of Lisa Marie and the popular food truck, Priscilla, is legendary in cooking club circles (originally known as “deep fried pizza guy” because the first time we visited, he made deep fried mini meatball pizzas with […]
Les Petits Chefs make Mac n Cheese Burgers with Matt Basile at Lisa Marie
The Petits Chefs were thrilled to head back to Lisa Marie restaurant to cook with Matt Basile this week. Matt, chef/ owner of Lisa Marie and the popular food truck, Priscilla, is a rock star in the kitchen in the boys’ eyes. He is popularly known in cooking club circles as “deep fried pizza guy” because […]
Les Petits Chefs make the ultimate sandwich at Lisa Marie
The focus for this year’s Food Revolution Day is about sharing the power of cooking, the benefits of cooking from scratch and, ultimately showing people that changing our food choices can make us both healthier and happier. Instead of one official recipe as there has been in years past, this year, we have a set of 10 […]
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