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Salmon Mousse

This Salmon Mousse is delicious served at aperitif time or in individual portions as a first course. It can be prepared up to 3 days before serving.

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.

Main Dishes

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.

Warm fresh tomato Farfalle

To learn more about tomatoes, Read: Cooking with tomato Normally I prefer to cook with food at their peak

Mexican beef Salad

This beef salad prepared with leftover roast beef is a favorite in my family since many years.

Instant Pot

Instant Pot Maple Syrup Baked Beans

It takes less than 2 hours to cook these delicious and tender Maple Syrup Baked Beans.

Rice Noodle Lobster Salad

A refreshing lobster salad made with rice noodles, lime and fresh basil.

Instant Pot Carrot Orange Soup

The aroma of orange pleasantly enhances the taste of this soup.

Desserts

Strawberry Sour Cream Gratins

This dessert is prepared in individual bowls and broiled just before serving.

Rhubarb Muffins

These rhubarb muffins have a slightly tangy taste with a dense and soft texture.

Thumbprints Jam cookies

Impossible to resist these soft and crumbly cookies that melt in your mouth.

Foods

Italian Tuna White Beans Salad

This Italian classic can be prepared in no time with a can of tuna and a can of white beans.

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.

Fiddlehead: Picking, preparing and a special technique to cook them

A special way of cooking fiddleheads that removes the pungent taste that persists even if the vegetable is well cleaned of its brown particles.

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

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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.