Ayurvedic Herbs: Knock you out and go to sleep sedating tea for insomnia

After a few lovely nights of insomnia this would probably be my drink of choice too! I am quite familiar with insomnia, we have been best buds (enemies ) since my teen years. I have tried every thing, no need to send me suggestions. Please, don’t! I have heard them all!

I recently had [...]

Blueberry and Almond Streusel Cake

As I mentioned recently in my Brown Sugar Fudge post, some of my colleagues regularly bring to work treats to eat. My department has a dedicated table for shared treats, how bad is that? The best home baked contribution of late was a Blueberry and Almond Strudel Cake. This wonderful coffee cake by Mandoline can be [...]

Greek Yogurt Cheese Cake

Last week I attended a media event where a lucky few bloggers and journalist got to sample a few Greek recipes made with Oikos Greek yogurt. The event took place at Martin Juneau’s new restaurant, Pastaga. Martin is one of the hot commodity Montreal chefs  and he prepared one of the recipes of the evening, [...]

Secret Recipe Club: Brown Sugar Fudge

Today is my group’s reveal day for the Secret Recipe Club. What is the SRC? Basically you are assigned a fellow participant’s blog by the organizer and then you pick a recipe of your choice from that blog and make your version of it. But it is a secret, you cannot reveal whom you picked [...]

Blueberry Upside Down Cake

There is a magical place in Quebec, about 6 hours by car North East of Montreal, called Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean which is famed for one beautiful blue, round, delicious fruit: the Blueberry. The sandy soils of this region are a perfect habitat for this shrub. Blueberries abound and they are the small flavor-packed wild variety.

This fruit [...]

5 Star Makeover: Apples With Beet Hummus and Mint Yogurt Sauce

OK you caught me, I lied! In my last post I said the next thing I would publish would be the raclette dinner party but, oops, I did not realize it was 5 Star Makeover time. So here is my February entry with BEETS as the theme. Raclette coming up next post!

Beets are such [...]

Cherry Clafoutis

A couple of weekends ago I had a little dinner party at my place with my 7 closest friends, making us a total number of 8. Eight was the crucial number. My friends came over for a Swiss Raclette dinner and the Raclette machine we used had 8 trays, one each. My next post will [...]

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