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Hi I’m Mardi. I'm a full-time French teacher to elementary school aged boys and the author of eat. live. travel. write – a blog focusing onmy culinary adventures near and far.
eat. live. travel. write.
5d ago
Oh my, it’s been a long time since a Petits Chefs post, hasn’t it? In-person cooking club came to a halt in March 2020. We had online cooking club right up until March 2024 at my school with a brief interlude into a baking club in Term 2 last year. I didn’t manage to write ... Read more ..read more
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1w ago
Coming at you with a recipe for a fabulous cool-weather dish (works well for rainy, still chilly spring days here in Toronto or early autumn days in the Southern Hemisphere!) Cassoulet is a slow-cooked (but not made in the slow cooker) casserole containing white beans and meat – typically duck confit, sausage and perhaps pork ... Read more ..read more
eat. live. travel. write.
1w ago
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Goat Cheese-Black Pepper Quick Bread is a great little recipe to have in your back pocket for when guests drop in for afternoon apéros! Basically it’s a savoury quick bread which, if you haven’t tried you should! It comes together so fast because for ... Read more ..read more
eat. live. travel. write.
2w ago
Hello and Happy French Friday! I’m THRILLED to be sharing this memoir today by a good friend and inspriring-all-round-human. Jane Bertch’s The French Ingredient is a story I always knew was going to be told, as soon as I walked through the doors of the fabulous La Cuisine Paris cooking school back in 2011 (of ... Read more ..read more
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3w ago
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Parisian Custard Tart is something I’ve eaten a fair few times whilst in France, mostly the tall “flan” version – this version looks more like a giant Portuguese custard tart so I figured I could minify this to make individual serves (especially as I ... Read more ..read more
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1M ago
Hello and Happy French Friday! I’ve got a feel-good French read for you today by one of my favourite authors – Gillian Harvey’s The Bordeaux Books Club! From the publisher: Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members! When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming ... Read more ..read more
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1M ago
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Breakfast in Rome Lemon Cake is based on a cake that Dorie discovered when she was in Rome and: scanned the bar and was stopped by a cake as yellow as a child’s drawing of the sun. It was tall and simple and made ... Read more ..read more
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1M ago
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Potato Flake Biscuits are actually what I’d call scones – savoury scones. For Australians, “biscuits” means what North Americans call “cookies” but I know enough now from baking from North American cookbooks to expect a scone-type thing this week before I even looked at the ... Read more ..read more
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1M ago
Did you know – today, February 26th, is Canada’s National Cupcake Day – raising money for the Ontario SPCA. That’s right – today is all about cupcakes – and raising money to help animals in need all around Canada. What is Cupcake Day? Originally launched by the RSPCA in New South Wales, Australia, National Cupcake ... Read more ..read more
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2M ago
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. It’s also the FINAL recipe* the Cook the Book Fridays group will make – having started working our way through this in November 2018. Five and a half years! This book joins my “cooked my way through it” shelf of ... Read more ..read more