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 … Read more
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 … Read more
As soon as the boys found out where they were headed on a field trip for cooking club this week, they immediately asked “Are we going to deep fry something?” Matt Basile, chef/ owner of Lisa Marie restaurant and the popular food truck, Priscilla (also a rock star in the boys’ eyes), is popularly known … Read more
Matt Basile might tell you that he is the chef/ owner of Lisa Marie restaurant and the popular food truck, Priscilla, here in Toronto but the Petits Chefs will tell you otherwise. In their eyes, Matt is a rock star. A rock star with cooking gadgets – the best kind! We’ve cooked with Matt in … Read more
Cheesy, bacon-y, messy, drippy. This kind of food appears all throughout Matt Basile’s debut cookbook Street Food Diaries – Irresistible Recipes Inspired by The Street. It’s also the kind of food he serves at Lisa Marie (the bricks and mortar extension of Priscilla, his food truck) and the kind of food that my Petits Chefs … Read more
Food is community. When we think about making a meal, it’s generally to share with others and something I am always happy to hear from the parents of my Petits Chefs is that the boys want to cook with their parents at home – that sharing component is so important when it comes to food … Read more