I have shared my preference for light pasta sauces before, and had the chance this weekend to make my favorite pasta dish: spaghetti al vongole. I have ordered this dish time and time again at Italian restaurants, and have yet to get tired of the light white wine sauce and the fresh herbs and clams […] Read more…
I hadn’t made tuiles since I was at Culinary School, so I couldn’t be happier about this month’s Daring Bakers challenge! Tuiles can be a little tricky to make and they’re all about timing. Once you take them out of the oven, you really have to act quickly as they will become too rigid to […] Read more…
I’ve had a bit of a love affair with fennel in the past couple years. Many have turned it down considering it a second rate vegetable. As recently as last week I was asked “How can you like its anise flavor, it’s so overpowering?” I think I slightly blushed. I sometimes have a whole fennel […] Read more…
You know how people tend to talk about the weather when they have nothing to really say to one another? In Montreal, talking about the weather is more like talking about a secret society that every person in the city is a part of. It’s been bitterly cold here in the past couple days: the […] Read more…
I remember trying to make brownies as a child with my mom and it being a total disaster. Well, that might be a bit of an over-statement… it’s hard for baked chocolate and sugar to turn out horribly wrong, but they were dry, overly rich and just not very good. Maybe it was the French […] Read more…
First of all, I must apologize for my lack of posts these past few weeks. Between Venice, Paris and the South West of France I had grand plans of posting many recipes and accounts of my holiday adventures but things didn’t quite happen as planned. For all of us who spend quite some time trying […] Read more…