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Herbes de Provence Bread & Au Revoir My Vancouver Kitchen

February 5, 2018 by Suzie the Foodie 6 Comments

This is a hard post to write. It will be my last foodie post from my kitchen in Vancouver. I worked so hard to use the little natural light it got to spotlight my food. I am glad that I am ending this particular foodie cycle with such a special recipe. I have been wanting […]

Français Tarte Aux Poireaux – French Leek Tart

November 15, 2015 by Suzie the Foodie Leave a Comment

This recipe comes from The Hawthorn Series Step by Step French Cooking which must be out of print because I can not find reference to it online anywhere! Here are some of their other little books. So cute and I picked mine up at Value Village for $2! I changed a lot of the original recipe […]

Food Network Cooking Club Challenge: Laura Calder’s Creme Caramel

April 12, 2010 by Suzie the Foodie 10 Comments

This month’s Food Network Cooking Club challenge is Laura Calder’s Creme Caramel. There is lots of time to participate so please join us if you dare! Creme Caramel, you are so misunderstood. Looking at your recipe, you come across as so simple to make. So, dare I say, easy? Sugar, whole milk, vanilla bean, eggs, […]

Back to Basics: Sweet Crêpes

January 11, 2010 by Suzie the Foodie 5 Comments

When my mom visited last year she told me many stories about food Grandma used to make her growing up. For years my mom did not know that what we call crêpes were crêpes because Grandma used to call them pancakes. In honour of my mom and Grandma I wanted to make their version of […]

Back to Basics: Crêpes

January 8, 2010 by Suzie the Foodie 6 Comments

Over at the Suzie the Foodie Facebook Fan Page Melly gave me the Back to Basics suggestion to make crêpes. And I was more than happy to oblige! Crêpes are one of my favourite things to eat in the whole world. In fact, she inspired me so much I went out and purchased my very […]

Cooking Lesson #4: Chicken & Mushroom Crêpes

September 1, 2009 by Suzie the Foodie 7 Comments

Make this recipe vegetarian by omitting the chicken and add even more beautiful mushrooms to the filling Crêpes are one of my favourites things in the world. I loved them so much that at 16 I taught myself how to make them for my sweet 16 birthday party. I filled them with strawberry jam and […]

Cooking Lesson #3: Gratin Dauphinois / Potato Gratin

August 31, 2009 by Suzie the Foodie 7 Comments

The word gratin in the world of food usually means: baked with cheese topping. Even in my book La Varenne Pratique this is the case and according to them the most famous example is gratin dauphinois. Lovely Parisian foodie extraordinaire Clotilde Dusoulier from the fantastic site Chocolate & Zucchini insists that there is no cheese […]