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Chef Martin Picard’s Tomato Tart is Luscious and Easy as Pie

June 21, 2016

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Tomato Tart from ‘Au Pied de Cochon’ Cookbook by Martin Picard Read more…

Filed Under: chef Martin Picard, Recipe, Vegetables Tagged With: Chef Martin Picard, pie, Quebec, recipe, tomato, tomato tart

Ginger Pear Pie: A One-Crust Wonder

September 28, 2011

When a reader of this blog e-mailed me with a question about my recipe for Jewish Chicken Soup – the best medicine I know for whatever ails body or soul – we had an exchange about the source of that recipe: my esteemed colleague and longtime restaurant critic for the Globe & Mail, Joanne Kates.

I have long been grateful to her for that soup, especially her tip about adding the mandatory parsnip. It gives delicate sweetness that elevates that winter mainstay from good to simply sublime.

That young male reader of my blog, after discussing the merits of adding chicken feet to the actual chicken (feet give thickness and a luscious, glutinous texture along with extra flavour), told me he was about to make a delicious dessert from The Joanne Kates Cookbook (my source for the soup and a vintage tome published in 1984) called Ginger Pear Pie. Read more…

Filed Under: Dessert, Ginger, Joanne Kates, Pear, Pie, Recipe Tagged With: ginger, joanne kates, pear, pie, recipe

Peach Galette – Finally Got it!

July 20, 2011

When I get obsessed with a recipe, it pervades my waking and sleeping hours.

Of late, it’s been peach galette, how much ground almonds to use in the layer below the peaches, what oven temperature, how long to bake – the list goes on. Then comes the testing and re-testing until Ross and I are  eating the dessert daily and the freezer is full of  various renditions, all clearly labelled. Read more…

Filed Under: Dessert, peach, Pie, Pie, Recipe, Toronto Tagged With: peach, peach galette, peach pie, peach recipe, pie, recipe, Toronto

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Marion Kane, Food Sleuth®

Marion Kane has been a leader in the world of food journalism for a few decades. She is an intrepid populist whose work combines social commentary with a consuming passion for all things culinary. For 18 years, she was food editor/columnist for Canada's largest newspaper: the Toronto Star. She lives in Toronto's colourful Kensington Market and is currently a free-wheeling freelance food sleuth®, podcaster, writer and cook.

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