A couple of Sundays ago, I spent all day in the kitchen with my new Momofuku Milk Bar book. I had been looking forward to a whole day of cooking and baking for a long time. I felt ambitious that day and decided to tackle 2 recipes out of the book. Now you may not …
A few weeks ago, some of us bloggers got together to test recipes from the new Giovanni Apollo cookbook, Apollo 2. I had received the book a few days prior to that and thought it was beautifully illustrated with dramatic photography and cute hand sketched illustrations. The way the book is organized is also very …
The Jean-Talon Market is my corner store. No really, it is since I live about 2 blocks away from it. In the summer, I stop by there almost every day. I sometimes don’t need anything but I love walking around all the stalls, especially at the end of the day when it’s quiet. I actually …
My mom’s strawberry and pastry cream tart… Those words alone evoke an idyllic lazy summer day to me. It’s the perfect tart to make especially now that the Quebec strawberries are in season and oh so sweet. I don’t know how you feel about pastry cream but it’s one of my all-time favourite things to …
I blame my mother for my impeccable and insatiable taste for all things sweet. You see when all my friends were eating store-bought desserts, my house was always filled with my mom’s home-made desserts. When all my friends were enjoying “simple”, unpretentious Lebanese sweets, I was turning my nose up at them because my mother …
