Healthy, French, Home-cooking, always fresh, (almost) no cream required!
This is about simple cooking for my kids away from home, family and friends and friends of friends. Not quite recipes, just inspiration.Often, no exact quantities, certainly no scientific potions, but a bit of magic and lots of love! and you could always ask for more details.
Share my love of cooking, enjoy the Pacific West Coast bounty and help me pass along the French Heritage from my Grand-mothers and my Dad who taught me.Salt and Pepper
Even when I don't say so, use Baleine sea-salt and fresh ground pepper from your Peugeot pepper mill, goes without saying!
Category Archives: Baking
French Crêpes are always fun to make!
February 2nd is Chandeleur day in Europe, it is a day of purification after winter when all candles are lit in celebration. It marks the end of winter and was officially the first day of the sowing season. Hence, the … Continue reading
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Tagged candelmas, chandeleur, crêpe, crepes, dessert, food, french crepe, verygoodrecipe
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Blood orange tart with pistachios from the Globe & Mail
End your meal with blood orange and pistachio tart LUCY WAVERMAN Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 Ingredients 2 cups water, 1 cup sugar, 2 blood oranges, thinly sliced, 1 cup shelled pistachios, ½ cup unsalted butter cut into pieces, ½ cup sugar, 1 teaspoon grated … Continue reading
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Tagged blood orange, blood orange tart, food, pistachio, recipes
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Good old Times Butter Tarts from home-made Lard
When it comes to baking, Sharon is a perfectionist. And that is our luck because she has allowed me to share her recipes for the best butter tarts I have ever had. I say recipes, because we are not talking … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Little help from my friends
Tagged baking, butter tarts, food, home-made lard, lard, leaf lard, recipes, verygoodrecipe
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The ultimate chocolate truffle
This is truly the chocolate lover’s ultimate treat, a dangerous little nugget, smooth inside, covered with a soft shell and dusted in powder, all three elements containing chocolate. You try one, it tastes so good, you have to test another … Continue reading
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Tagged chocolat, chocolate, chocolate truffles, dessert, food, recipes
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Grenoble walnut square
I grew up in Grenoble, the walnut capital of the world. In the country side around the city, there are acres and acres of walnut trees, and one can tell easily that they are walnut trees, because their shade is … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, food, noix de grenoble, recipe, recipes, square, walnut square, walnuts
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Easy moist pound cake with yogurt
This is one that you can just whip up in no time, and that is a good thing because it will disappear just as fast. We used to make them all the time when I was a kid and really … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cooking, food, nutella, pound cake, quatre quart, recipe, recipes, yogurt cake
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Cake au beurre (Fruit Cake)
This is the French version of Fruit cake, they just call it cake and often serve it for the afternoon snack with tea or even at breakfast, how decadent! 1 cup butter 3/4 cup light brown sugar 4 eggs 2+ … Continue reading
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Tagged cake aux fruits secs, cooking, dry fruit, food, Fruit cake, raisin, recipe, recipes
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Pain d’épices du goûter
Literally, a spice bread usually served to French children after school as a snack, either plain or with unsalted butter and sometimes jam as well. I used to love it when I was a kid. It was store bought and … Continue reading
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Tagged children treat, cooking, food, gouter, honey, honey cake, pain d'épices, recipe, recipes, spice bread
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Claziena Mooy’s Ginger Cookies
Claziena, born in Heemskerk, Netherlands, emigrated to Nova Scotia with her husband Cornelus and nine children in April 1939 and they bought a dairy farm in the Annapolis valley. She was an accomplished baker, but her daughter Dora is even … Continue reading
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Tagged cookies, dutch cookies, food, ginger, ginger cookies, ginger snaps, recipe, recipes
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