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Salmon Pie

This Quebec Salmon pie is ideal for cold weather days. Accompany by a salad of green lettuce.

Easy Bearnaise sauce, how to prepare it, refrigerate, reheat and even freeze it!

Bearnaise sauce is exquisite with grilled beef or chicken as well as Quebec Chinese fondue.

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Easy Hollandaise sauce, how to prepare it, refrigerate, reheat and even freeze it!

Queen of the sauces, how to prepare it, refrigerate, reheat and even freeze it!

Main Dishes

Maple Tofu and Vegetable Saute

You can’t resist this colorful tofu and maple veggie dish garnished with cashews.

Instant Pot Chicken Breast with mushroom sauce

This delicious Instant Pot Chicken dish is ready in less than 45 minutes and ideal for a fine dining meal for 2.

Irish Cheddar Oven Toasts

These toasts accompanied with a green salad are perfect for serving at dinnertime.

Instant Pot

Instant Pot Pigs feet and Meatballs Quebec Ragout

Serve this delicious Quebec pork stew with boiled potatoes, beets or lettuce salad.

How to make yogurt in Instant Pot

Since I bought an Instant Pot pressure cooker I use it more and more frequently. The Instant Pot created by

Instant Pot Chicken Alfredo

A delicious pasta dish prepared in less than 1 hour and only one pot to wash!

Desserts

Chocolate Poke Cake

This chocolate poke cake is topped with a chocolate sauce that permeates the cake and forms a creamy frosting at the same time.

Blueberry Streusel Cake

This cake is a real treat accompanied by either coffee, tea or a glass of milk.

Quebec cooking: War Cake

The War Cake has a strong caramel flavor reminiscent of molasses. It is sweet as desired and therefore requires no frosting.

Foods

Local strawberry delicacies

There are few gourmand happiness as the arrival of local strawberries. They are full of flavor and perfume our kitchens.

Cooking deer

For lovers of deer hunting and the lucky ones who received it as a gift, here is a recipe for deer steak.

Apple Delights

My pleasure started with the box of fresh Mc Intosh apples that my mother was chilling in the conservatory. When

Handy

Cooking temperatures guide

It is since I placed my digital instant thermometer in clear view close to my stove (chefs keep it permanently

Ingredients volume-weight chart

This is a volume-weitght chart I worked on for many years. It will be handy as a reference to add

Tableau équivalence volume-poids pour pâtisserie

Ingredients weights chart for pastry

This weights charts for pastry is handy and fast to consult to prepare desserts and pastries. [table id=14/]

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The holidays are a good time to cook the typical dishes of families. If you've lost Grandma's roll cake recipe for the yule log or you're not sure how to prepare baked beans, "Les grands classiques de la cuisine d’ici", recently published by Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur, come to your rescue.

Traditional Quebec Cooking: a treasure of heirloom recipes: "Simple,warming dishes collected from trusted family cooks are clearly written"

This next book, Micheline Mongrain-Dontigny will dedicate it to the kitchen of the Mauricie. The author will spend the next few months travelling the road of this region in search of traditional recipes.

By publishing "La Cuisine Traditionnelle de Charlevoix", Micheline Mongrain-Dontigny believes she has touched a lead that will interest cooks in search of unique dishes to simmer.