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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...

Here’s a new variation of an accompaniment for your meat & cheese platters and other appetizers, that isn’t a sliced baguette or flatbreads nor dry and crunchy breadsticks or crackers; here are your new freshly-baked and tender bread bites ! These bread bites visually resemble the different versions of the crunchy and dry...

Cod, clams, shrimp, onions, champagne, with a hint of garlic, parsley, salt-preserved lemon and roasted red piquillo pepper, to prepare a flavorful dish, highlighted with some exceptional ingredients, with possible substitutions too ! There’s an older version of this dish that I’m familiar with, where you use dried, salted cod...

I’ll be in the city of Nice in the south of France in 1 week and in that city, they make the famous and huge “pan bagnat” sandwich, filled with so many different things, so I’ll retest and analyze a few and report back with the recipe in 2 weeks, but in the meantime, here’s my recipe for the making these large round...

An easy summer fish dish to prepare, combining the slightly sweet and anise flavors of fennel bulb and fennel seeds, with fresh limes and dill and the opportunity to use up the prepping leftovers to create a broth for the rice ! It’s a fairly simple dish, you’ll simply have use up everything in different ways. The limes...

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...

It’s so easy and quick to prepare meals when you already have sauce bases ready and waiting in the fridge, as I showed you two weeks ago with the “soffritto-ish” sauce bases; and this pasta sauce, combining equal parts sauce base and tomatoes, with or without chorizo, is just perfect ! Why with or without the sausage ? Because...

Everybody needs to make at least one apple pie during the autumn season, and after the first, many always make many more, so here’s a good-looking version with walnuts and raisins too ! When I was in elementary school in Canada, every September or October, we’d go on a school field trip and pick sweet and tart Macintosh apple by the...

With summer drawing to a close and the availability of tasty tomatoes that can be transformed into various preserves, here’s a new option : to prepare a concentrate or base for a sauce, in advance, which will be ready to use, for the various tomato sauce preparations you’ll need, right up until next summer‘s tomato harvest...

A summery Bastille Day (France’s national holiday on the 14th of July) amaretti version with a whole candied cherry in the middle in which there is also a whole roasted hazelnut inside the candied cherry; yes, layered fillings ! The cookie dough is still as easy to make, with one part egg white + two parts sugar + three parts ground...

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...

Whatever you name these and however you spell them and whichever way you assemble them, whether it’s an Italian soffritto or a Spanish or Hispanic sofrito, a Catalan sofregit, a Portuguese refogado, a Caribbean holy trinity, a German suppengrün, a Polish wloszczyna, an African-Taino epis and of course a French mirepoix, these basic...

A huge sandwich, made with a big round bread bun, stuffed beyond comprehension, with a filling of tuna flakes, slices of boiled egg, tomato, green pepper, scallions, radishes, artichoke heart, celery, with broad beans, olives, anchovies, grated tomato pulp, olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic and basil leaves … it’s a “salade...

A greek vegetarian dish of very tender yet still whole giant butter or lima beans, lightly bathed in a sauce of simmered tomatoes, vegetables and all the fresh herbs I have in my garden, but mostly accentuated with oregano and paprika.  I’ve made and published this recipe before, using the dry bean (or unsoaked method) and then...

Let’s welcome the summer with these rustic preparations, but by replacing the most common ingredients with more refined ones, like fresh sausages instead of hot dogs, crusty buns instead of soft rolls and roasted vegetable spreads/caviar instead of ketchup and relish ! The summer season has been lazy in arriving, so it’ll be...