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The Gourmet Club: Baked Fennel with Lamb and Coriander

November 23, 2015 by Suzie the Foodie 2 Comments

For the third recipe of The Gourmet Club series I turned once again to La Varenne Pratique for inspiration. And continuation! The reason why I made French Tomato Sauce was so I could use it for this recipe. You could of course just use a regular can of tomato sauce instead but it worked so well in this […]

The Gourmet Club Lesson #2: LaVarenne Pratique’s French Tomato Sauce

November 12, 2015 by Suzie the Foodie Leave a Comment

This is part 1 for making a dish from La Varenne Pratique. To make the Baked Fennel with Lamb and Coriander dish I had to have 2 cups of French tomato sauce. As a result, I decided to do a tutorial on how to make this sauce. If you prefer watching my video you can find it […]

The Gourmet Club Class #1: Baking Eggs En Cocotte

November 6, 2015 by Suzie the Foodie Leave a Comment

The Gourmet Club has officially launched! Bring on fabulously decadent food. Since the weekend is almost upon us, why not try and make baked eggs in cream this weekend? I made mine with cream cheese and lox but you can make them with whatever flavours you want. This technique comes to you from my copy […]

Welcome to The Gourmet Club

November 4, 2015 by Suzie the Foodie 9 Comments

When I was very young and we lived in Montreal, my mom was part of a gourmet club. She and her friends would put together incredibly elaborate meals for each other and they would talk about it over and over, forever. My mom loved good food. It was important to her. This did not include dessert […]