Today, April 25th 2024, I’m bringing you a “controversial take” on ANZAC Biscuits (according to my fellow Aussie colleague lol!). Controversial because they’re SQUARES and more like slice than a biscuit (cookie). Wait, what… What is ANZAC DAY ? This day commemorates the anniversary of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) landing on … Read more
The Petits Chefs are back this week with one of my favourite recipes from In the French kitchen with kids! When I was developing the recipes for the book, I was fortunate enough to be hosting in-person cooking club in a perfect space for it and the kids spent a term testing recipes for the … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Double-Decker Salted Caramel Cake wasn’t one I was particularly fussed about (especially a whole cake serving 10) but it turns out that I had a recipe to test for Leite’s Culinaria that went perfectly with this – a salted caramel frosting, slightly different from Dorie’s … Read more
Oh my, it’s been a long time since a Petits Chefs post, hasn’t it? In-person cooking club came to a halt in March 2020. We had online cooking club right up until March 2024 at my school with a brief interlude into a baking club in Term 2 last year. I didn’t manage to write … Read more
Coming at you with a recipe for a fabulous cool-weather dish (works well for rainy, still chilly spring days here in Toronto or early autumn days in the Southern Hemisphere!) Cassoulet is a slow-cooked (but not made in the slow cooker) casserole containing white beans and meat – typically duck confit, sausage and perhaps pork … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Goat Cheese-Black Pepper Quick Bread is a great little recipe to have in your back pocket for when guests drop in for afternoon apéros! Basically it’s a savoury quick bread which, if you haven’t tried you should! It comes together so fast because for … Read more