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greek-style stuffed zucchini with egg & lemon sauce
greek-style stuffed zucchini with egg & lemon sauce

This summer in Montreal, I asked my mom to show me how to make "kolokithàkia yemistà mé avgolémono," a summer dish I hadn't had in years. The beautiful weather matched the delicious meal. The bright lemon and herbs, tender and sweetened zucchini shells, savory beef and rice filling, and creamy egg-lemon...

06.09.2025
green «gazpacho» cold soup starter
green «gazpacho» cold soup starter

A chilled soup, that you can drink or enjoy with a spoon, that is savory, packed with greener vegetable flavors, inevitably refreshing and an excellent option for the summer heat ! Most of you may be familiar with a red gazpacho which includes red tomatoes and peppers and onions, as well as more water-rich cucumber and of course, garlic (lots...

02.08.2025
cold chicken breast & greens salad with caesar dressing
cold chicken breast & greens salad with caesar dressing

I find myself often testing “caesar salads” in restaurants, often topped with chicken when I want a one-course quick meal, so I finally decided to make my own version that is fresh yet more filling … :) The first ever Caesar salad was created on July 4, 1924 by Caesar Cardini at Caesar's in Tijuana, Mexico, when the...

05.07.2025
pizza with sausage meat & roasted peppers & onions
pizza with sausage meat & roasted peppers & onions

A nourishing and hearty winter season pizza, combining fried up and crumbled sausage stuffing and roasted onions and bell peppers, highlighted with a hint of additional accents and spices and topped with different cheeses and fresh herbs and a little story about how I organize my prepping and cooking ! Please understand, I never begin slicing...

01.02.2025
«kataifi galaktoboureko» semolina custard pie with shredded filo filaments crust & syrup
«kataifi galaktoboureko» semolina custard pie with shredded filo filaments crust & syrup

It’s a complicated name and a lengthy title and description for a new type of dessert that you may wish to attempt for this year’s Epiphany (January 6th) in order to replace the more traditional king’s cake or the brioche and/or galette des rois, because it’s luminous and festive and creamy and crunchy too ! It’s a...

04.01.2025
a better black olive «tapenade»
a better black olive «tapenade»

A little bit of this and a little bit of that added, to lighten up the heavier and saltier and denser flavors of the black olives, resulting with a dip or spread that is still powerful but somewhat brightened and better balanced ! Some olives are to be enjoyed as is, when packed in quality olive oil or in a well-balanced brine and some are...

16.08.2025
strained greek yogurt dessert with thyme honey & walnuts & raisins
strained greek yogurt dessert with thyme honey & walnuts & raisins

Some food assemblies can remain utterly simple, without any actual mixing and each spoonful of this dessert reveals a difference in taste and texture, depending on how much of each individual element of that assembly is in that same spoonful; nectar and ambrosia ! Usually, I would not dare to publish such a simple recipe/assembly but a slight...

19.07.2025
chocolate easter egg nest cakes
chocolate easter egg nest cakes

One Easter dessert that fulfills all of those holiday cravings and is triply chocolate in taste as well as visually, with a moist cocoa and coffee cake and a rich mascarpone and melted chocolate frosting and topped with crunchy chocolate easter eggs ! I’m not going to lie by telling you that I made these cakes this spring, but I did make...

29.03.2025
white & creamy soffritto & sausage meat ragù sauce with tagliatelle
white & creamy soffritto & sausage meat ragù sauce with tagliatelle

The most delicately flavored and comforting winter pasta dish I’ve ever made, using basic sausage meat and that wonderful prepared in advance, pre-cooked and jarred onion-carrot-celery sauce base I shared with you several months ago, with just the simple additions of some white wine at first and then chicken stock and finally heavy cream, to...

18.01.2025
dark chocolate domes with salted peanuts & pretzels
dark chocolate domes with salted peanuts & pretzels

Grown-ups like chocolates too, especially during the holidays, but chocolates that are stronger in flavor, thus darker and less sweet and perhaps saltier and crunchier too, so here are some snow-capped chocolate domes for the winter festivities ! They’re smooth, yet rugged, but not quite like rocky clusters either, despite the open cracks...

21.12.2024