Around about now, I should have been taking my Grade 6s on a trip to the supermarket to shop for ingredients to make the Haitian food they would have researched. Today we’d go shopping, tomorrow, we’d have cooked 3 or 4 dishes and sat down to enjoy a meal together. I’ve done this activity in … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and it’s a fabulous one for the chilly days of December. A tasty broth filled with rice noodles and vegetables and turkey meatballs packed with flavour is just the thing for dinner on a snowy day – this was … Read more
This week the boys made Jamie Oliver’s Angry Pasta Fagioli from his latest book, Veg – releasing October 22nd in the US/ Canada. We’re cooking from the UK version (because, metric and also because I’m impatient and couldn’t wait an extra couple of months for release date here!). It’s a fairly simple recipe but one … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie. To be honest, it’s one I wasn’t particularly keen to make this month, given I knew I wouldn’t be able to find gorgeous corn like I do at home (I’m in France for a couple more weeks and corn … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and was the perfect soup to enjoy over Easter weekend (which wasn’t exactly spring-like but at least it wasn’t snowing… hey, we take what we can get in this era of odd weather…). This calls for green veggies – … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen – classic French Onion Soup – is perfect for the weather we’ve been having in Toronto this past week. My school was closed for one day this week (and had a late start the following day) – only the second time … Read more