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If you could have only one thing handy when friends pop over for a drink or two, I think this may be it, in replacement of the usual yet appreciated medley of bread, cheese, dried sausage and olives or pickled vegetables… it’s bready, salty, herby, with olives and cheese (I avoided adding some cured ham or sausage but feel free to add...

Usually, I use spinach and feta cheese  for making those little greek spanakopita triangles, a type of soft cheese and egg filling to which you add some cooked vegetables and wrap up in sheets of buttered filo dough (a simple recipe but requiring a longer preparation that you can see here). In the meantime, you can quickly whip these...

One of my favourite simple / moist / citrusy / zesty / refreshing desserts (you’d think they were soaked in a syrup) . . .  And a definite favourite of my friends since they’re always asking me to make some and bring them over to accompany their dinner parties or brunches (instead of the usual bottle of wine). Now since...

Flammekueche (pronounced fla-mu-kush) is an Alsatian (eastern region of France bordering Germany, and part of Germany in the past, so kind of in-between) specialty of a bacon, onion and sour cream topping over a flat bread base, baked in a wood-burning oven. Strata is a clever mix of ingredients (and/or leftovers) laid over a base of day-old bread...

"There are two kinds of people in this world… there's them and there's us." …funny words surprisingly uttered to us by a then-waitress now-kind-of-superstar living in London, while sitting in a Greek-run coffee shop in Montreal, sometime in the late 80's. "Us" Greeks (also known as "my...

Now here's a perfect solution for a last-minute cocktail event ! Okay, it's mid-week and you're getting home (perhaps a bit earlier than usual) from work and you bump into a few friends and/or neighbors that you haven't had a drink with or chatted with in a while… why not ask them to pass by your place later on to share a...

There seems to be something magical (yet crazy) about making your own versions of simpler things we usually can buy at the store such as chips, bread sticks and/or crackers but how about crispy seed crackers. What more can I say ? They’re seedy, they’re crispy, they’re wholesome, they’re great on their own, they go...

Now why would one even bother making one's own homemade chicken livers terrine (which is a denser/chunkier version of a pâté) when one could just as easily buy just about any type of terrine for a just few euros ? (I used "just" 3 times here)… Because terrines can be like some processed meats, mysterious in...