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Hi I'm Mardi. A full-time French teacher to elementary school-aged boys and the author of eat. live. travel. write a blog focusing on my culinary adventures near and far. I write about food and travel.
eat. live. travel. write.
3d ago
This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club made Strawberry Cheesecake Cake Cups – an easy, no-bake dessert that’s a riff on a recipe I shared last year. That recipe uses mascarpone and a strawberry sauce where you cook the strawberries but today’s recipe is simplified a little – using cream cheese and a fresh ... Read more ..read more
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3d ago
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. I got my picks of the recipes this month because it’s my birthday so it’s ALL about choux this month (we made Cream Puffs with Crackle and Cream for the first recipe this month). This week we made Gouga Gougères. Now I’m no stranger ... Read more ..read more
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2w ago
This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club, we made muffins! Primarily because last weekend I had excess blueberries and bananas at my house and wanted to use them up so some food-waste avoidance became recipe testing for this session with the students! I riffed on my easy banana chocolate chip muffin recipe and subbed ... Read more ..read more
eat. live. travel. write.
2w ago
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. I got my picks of the recipes this month because it’s my birthday so it’s ALL about choux today and in 2 weeks! This week I chose to make the Cream Puffs with Crackle and Cream – basically a version of a cream puff/ ... Read more ..read more
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3w ago
This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club, we made a favourite recipe from French Food for Everyone: le goûter (after-school snacks)! Torsades au Chocolat (Chocolate Custard Twists) are the sort of thing that always catches my eye at the bakery in France when I’m only supposed to be picking up bread ? Inevitably, one ... Read more ..read more
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1M ago
This week for Les Petits Chefs baking club, I had planned to teach them how to make ANZAC Biscuit Squares – an easy recipe that is basically one bowl and doesn’t take long to bake. But when I was making a list of ingredients to shop for I realised that coconut is rarely sold without ... Read more ..read more
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1M ago
Today, April 25th 2024, I’m bringing you a “controversial take” on ANZAC Biscuits (according to my fellow Aussie colleague lol!). Controversial because they’re SQUARES and more like slice than a biscuit (cookie). Wait, what… What is ANZAC DAY ? This day commemorates the anniversary of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) landing on ... Read more ..read more
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1M ago
The Petits Chefs are back this week with one of my favourite recipes from In the French kitchen with kids! When I was developing the recipes for the book, I was fortunate enough to be hosting in-person cooking club in a perfect space for it and the kids spent a term testing recipes for the ... Read more ..read more
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1M 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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1M 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