Winter

Instant Pot Carbonara Pasta

This Spaghetti Carbonara dish is quick to prepare with few ingredients and only one pan to clean!

Poor Man Caramel Pudding

This pudding is delicious and easy to prepare. The soft butter cake cooked in the same mold as the caramel sauce.

Bagels

Served plain or toasted, you will surely love these delicious and tender bagels

Borscht Beet Soup

First a simply prepared soup that fed poor peasants during the time of the Russian Revolution, borscht has become a cooking classic and is now known all over the world.

Tomato Orange Sauce for duck confit

This delicious sauce goes wonderfully with duck confit. It can be prepared in advance and frozen.

Instant Pot Chicken Alfredo

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

Seville Orange Marmalade

This delicious marmalade with a refreshing taste and pleasant bitterness is much better than the marmalade sold at supermarkets.

Instant Pot Quebec Pea Soup

A comforting and flavorful soup to serve during the cold season.

Red Bean and Corn light Salad

You will be pleasantly surprised by the well balanced and delicate taste of this salad prepared without oil.

Instant Pot Creamy Broccoli Soup

A very nourishing Brocoli Soup which is very easy to prepare.

Lemon Bread

If you are fond of lemon desserts you will love this lemon bread.

Instant Pot Creamy Cheese Farfalle Pasta

These farfalles are perfectly coated with creamy cheese sauce.

Braised Beef shanks with carrots in the Instant Pot

Instant Pot recipe: Braised Beef shanks with carrots

This braised beef dish is fork tender with creamy bone marrow.

Quebec cuisine: Buckwheat Galettes with suggested accompaniements

When autumn arrive it reminds me it is the time to buy fresh buckwheat flour for our autumn and winter buckwheat galettes lunches. It

Texas Caviar

This tasty black eye pea salad can be prepared ahead of time and can be refrigerated for 5 days.

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.

Sweet Potato Pie

A delicious creamy pie with subtle tastes of caramel and spices.

Quebec cooking: Potato fricassee with salted pork

This economic and comforting dish is popular in many parts of Quebec. In the region of Charlevoix it is called sauce with potatoes, cioune

Chicken à la Kiev, step by step

Chicken à la Kiev is prepared with chicken breasts stuffed with butter ( in Russia) or garlic butter ( in America), breaded and fried.

Dinde rôtie et farce aux pommes de terre

Roast Turkey and potato stuffing prepared in advance

A roast turkey recipe and stuffing ideal for entertaining without stress. Much of the preparation can be done up to two days before serving.

Cranberry Cake with Maple Sauce

A delicious Cranberry Cake topped with a smooth maple sauce

Brunswick stew : popular in the south of USA

The first time I tasted this stew I was vacationing in the state of Georgia. It was a canned Brunswick stew my mother bought

Rebbeca’s Sausages Fricassee

It is with my late mother-in-law that I learned how to prepare this fricassee. Knowing my passion for cooking, she called me on the

Leftover Chicken Curry

You can also use leftover turkey to prepare this comfort dish.

Indonesian Rice

This rice casserole is flavored with coriander, cumin and lemon juice.

Barbecue Pork Hamburger

A hamburger prepared with leftover roast pork and barbecue sauce ready in 20 minutes.

Shoofly Pie

This pie is a classic and one of the favorite pie in the Amish Community

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.