Author Archive
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Poached pears
Poached pears are a simple staple. Something that can be turned into a dessert, a drink, a breakfast or a tart. Easily prepared and stored in advance of a dinner party or kept for a few days worth of breakfasts, they’re something to keep in mind for those last minute panics when people are coming [...]
Leave a comment » - Posted in Alternate apero,Healthy by loudada
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Healthy fruity muffins – butter free!
It’s been a while. It seems that pregnancy and cooking are not always a good combination. Raging hormones have temporarily replaced my taste buds with those of a hungover university freshman and I had no inclination to cook or eat anything healthy or strange or exciting let alone write about it. No offense to college [...]
View comments » - Posted in Baking,Fruits and seeds,Healthy by loudada
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Smoky celeriac bowl with kombu
December is here, root vegetables reign, and the pomegranate is back until end of January. Fast, after work suppers are hard to manage without relying on fast food or processed produce. Keep a few staples in the kitchen to back you up for when you feel like a healthy supper that doesn’t taste like a [...]
Leave a comment » - Posted in Gluten free,Healthy,veggie by loudada
Friday, October 30th, 2009
In between Thanksgivings – put your Halloween pumpkin guts to good use
Tis the season…autumn meets winter, the appearance of parsnips to confound French people, it’s that period of in-between-the-Thanksgiving(s) plus the Halloween call for pumpkin head carving that will create a lot of pumpkin gut spilling. What to do with it? Pie! This is a weeks worth of breakfast right there so that alone will make [...]
Leave a comment » - Posted in Baking,Canada,Roasted,sweet and savoury,Tarts and pies by loudada
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Butter tarts – a great Canadian invention
Butter tarts. A tart made of butter? Surely not. But it is exactly that, give or take the eggs and sugar and your choice of flavouring. Beyond that detail however, and more importantly, this is by far the best way to gain the love of a Canadian. Or, at the very least, their attention for [...]
View comments » - Posted in Baking,Canada by loudada
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Choco-coconut azuki bean brownies
Healthy brownies are all the rage. Adapted from a cookbook dedicated to cooking with agave nectar by Ania Catalano, Heidi’s infamous black bean brownies have taken the food blogs by storm. Now we’ve got red bean azuki brownies. The beans replace the flour, give texture, lend their crumbly nature and render something sinful slightly less [...]
View comments » - Posted in Baking,Gluten free,Healthy by loudada
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Bean bowl – Sweet and salty azuki with almondy wild rice and quinoa
Small, red and eaten extensively in China and Japan, azuki beans are often eaten as a good luck or celebratory dish in Japan being cooked with sticky rice to form the red rice dish sekihan. Boiled with sugar they form the red bean paste commonly used in Chinese and Japanese desserts and are used to [...]
Leave a comment » - Posted in Grains,Healthy,sweet and savoury by loudada
Monday, September 7th, 2009
Dukka
While spending a couple of days recently in The Hunter Valley, one of Australia’s wine regions, I couldn’t help but wonder why on earth Dukka was served everywhere. Each restaurant seemed to offer a starter of sourdough and dukka (or dukkah)…and always at a price too. It’s not something you come across in Paris ever [...]
View comments » - Posted in Alternate apero,Nuts,spicy by loudada
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Ode to the perogy
You could be forgiven for thinking they are a Canadian national food. Comforting and calorific , these little dumplings native to eastern Europe, are to be found all over, in shops and restaurants, fresh or frozen. Never having eaten a perogy, I muttered something about never having tasted them on my first visit to Canada [...]
Leave a comment » - Posted in Armchair travel cooking by loudada
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Picnic – The “Apri-Cumber” wheatberry salad
Nothing too original in this recipe but Paris picnicking season is well underway and there is always call for a Tupperware container of some kind of “salad”. It’s always fun too to raise Parisian eyebrows with random combinations of sweet and savoury. It took me a long time to figure out that the exotic wheat [...]
