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Miniature Nut Tartlets

This is an ideal pastry to prepare in advance for the Christmas festivities.

How to smoke trout

Save money and delight yourself by smoking your trouts or those of the supermarket.

Strawberry shortcake

The classic dessert par excellence to prepare during the local strawberry season.

Main Dishes

Cooking Lobster in Instant Pot

Cooking lobster in the Instant Pot is quick and as tasty as when it is boiled.

Salade de crevettes nordiques aux tomates

Tomato shrimp salad

To learn more about tomatoes, Read: Cooking with tomato When fresh local or my garden tomatoes are in abundance

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.

Instant Pot

Instant Pot Eggs in the shell

The white of hard boiled eggs cooked in a pressure cooker is softer than if they are cooked in a pot of water on the stove.

Instant Pot Beef Bourguignon

This classic of French cuisine can be made ahead and reheated just before serving.

How to cook with Instant Pot

Introduction The pressure cookers like the Instant Pot brings a small revolution to our kitchens. This appliance is not suitable

Desserts

Sugar Shack Meal at home

Celebrate the sugaring season by preparing a Sugar Shack meal with my traditional menu or my menu of current cuisine.

Instant Pot Blueberry Grunt

Blueberry Grunts cooked in the Instant Pot have more flavor than when cooked on the stove. The blueberry sauce tastes like fresh fruit in season.

Instant Pot Cheesecake

An Instant Pot is the ideal appliance to bake a delicious Cheesecake with the perfect texture.

Foods

Blueberry: History, Cooking and Picking

Picking berries and mushrooms in the wild is one of my passions. I can’t wait for the blueberries to ripen

Cooking with cranberry

What a beautiful sight to see the thousands of cranberries floating on the fields filled with water ready to harvest.

The morel is a spring mushroom. It is one of the most difficult mushrooms to spot in the forest so it’s not surprising that some people use the term morel hunting.La morille est un champignon de printemps.

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/]

Hi, I'm Micheline

It’s a pleasure to have you here, if you have any questions, drop me a line.

2022 Hall of Fame Inductees

“Micheline Mongrain-Dontigny’s cookbooks celebrate traditional and contemporary recipes as they are actually prepared in Quebec today in both home and professional kitchens. We are pleased to recognize her lifetime achievement in culinary writing.”
– Taste Canada Awards

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"

You gave us the opportunity to enjoy a fine cuisine that would make the envy of many great chefs. Send our thanks to your team and accept, dear lady, our very great consideration.

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.