The Provencal Cookbook: Shop, cook, and eat like a local The Provençal Cookbook by Gui Gedda and Marie-Pierre Moine is a wonderful collection of 100 Mediterranean authentic tantalizing recipes. The book cover alone conjures up images of fresh produce from outdoor markets. Inside the book, the beautiful photography captures the freshness and flavours of Provence’s regional cuisine. Kitchen Essentials and…
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Kelly of Baking with the Boys selected Fresh Mango Bread for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Event. Although I am not a fan of mangoes, my family loves them so I thought they would enjoy eating this bread. It was quick and easy to make. I was a bit concerned about the batter at first because it had a…
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To celebrate the 2nd blog anniversary of My Cookbook Addiction, I will be giving away some of my favourite cookbooks and prizes for the month of May! I never gave blogging a thought until I had to set one up for a Web site I was working on (Auberge des Gallant). When I was setting up a ‘test’ blog to…
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My introduction to Tex-Mex food was while writing a cookbook review on the Food and Flavors of San Antonio by Gloria Chadwick. Since I like to cook at least one or two recipes from any cookbook I review, for this cookbook I chose to make the Bean Tortilla Lasagna. Now that was some spicy Black Bean Tortilla Lasagna! My family…
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The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge. When I was browsing through my Google Reader this morning, I noticed blog posts for the April Daring Baker’s challenge. What? Today? I just came back from a one week out-of- town trip last night and completely forgot that today…
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A few months ago I received an invitation to attend the ‘Bitchin’ Kitchen’ cookbook signing at the Paragraphe Bookstore in Montreal. At first glance,The Bitchin’ Kitchen Cookbook seems to target the younger generation of cooks but a cook of any age who loves to cook and has a sense of humour will certainly appreciate this book. My twenty year old…
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Today I will be hosting our traditional family Easter lunch so the kitchen was my domain yesterday as I embarked on a baking/cooking marathon. Easter Menu 2009 ~~~ Appetizers Salmon Tartar Stuffed Eggs ~~~~ Soup Stracciatella with Fresh Spinach ~~~~ Main Course Roast Leg of Lamb Roasted small potatoes and asparagus Sugared baby carrots ~~~~ Dessert Italian Easter Sweet Bread…
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The March 2009 challenge is hosted by Mary of Beans and Caviar, Melinda of Melbourne Larder and Enza of Io Da Grande. They have chosen Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna from The Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper as the challenge I was thrilled to read that the Daring Bakers’s challenge for March was to make Emilia-Romagna Lasagne. Lasagna is my favourite…
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BloggerAid CookbookIvy of Kopiaste.. to Greek Hospitality , Giz of Equal Opportunity Kitchen, Val of More Than Burnt Toast and Gloria of Cookbook Cuisine have launched the BloggerAid Cookbook Project to raise funds in the quest to alleviate hunger in the world. Join the BloggerAid team and this worthy cause by contributing a recipe to the BloggerAid Cookbook. Fennel and…
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