When you can’t choose between mashed and baked potatoes, choose a dish that’s in between! These stuffed vegetables are garnished with an exquisite velvety mixture of aromatics—garlic, shallots, Gruyère and diced bacon—combined with mashed potatoes. This way, you’ll get the best of both worlds in terms of carbs: the baked skin, whole, and the generous flesh, full of flavour.
Рубрика: Holidays
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Brown Butter, Sage and Pecan Crackers
The real gift, of course, is the time you spend with your loved ones, so offer them crackers that will be a big hit once unwrapped. First, mix melted butter with sage and pecans, then cook it until the butter becomes nutty brown. Add it to your food processor with the other ingredients, making dough that’ll be cut into various shapes and baked. The resulting 30 crackers make lovely gift packages with a jar of rillettes or chutney, or some cheese.
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Open-Faced Cilantro Roast Pork Loin Sandwiches with Pineapple Chutney
This variation on the crusty pies of the holidays takes you away from the ordinary. Stuff these turnovers with a mixture of ground pork, thyme and fennel seeds, adding blue cheese and fig jam before closing the little packages and baking them in the oven. This refined dish is perfect for this occasion and its original flavours will make an impact.
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Ground Pork, Cheese and Fig Turnovers
This variation on the crusty pies of the holidays takes you away from the ordinary. Stuff these turnovers with a mixture of ground pork, thyme and fennel seeds, adding blue cheese and fig jam before closing the little packages and baking them in the oven. This refined dish is perfect for this occasion and its original flavours will make an impact.
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Linzer Cookies
Christmas would never be the same without pretty cookies. And if there’s a variety that perfectly represents this idea, it’s Austrian linzer cookies. Made with roasted hazelnuts and cinnamon, the bottom cookie is covered with raspberry jam, then topped with a second cookie featuring a hole in the centre cut with a cookie cutter. A sprinkling of icing sugar brings the finishing touch. Made on the day you serve them, they’ll have a shortbread texture; the next day, they’ll be chewier. In either case, they’ll taste of Christmas with every bite.
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Spiced Caramel Flan Cake
This recipe is inspired by Mexican chocolate flan, a cake topped with flan. Despite their very different textures, the two preparations are baked in the oven at the same time. In this version, the cake is flavoured with Christmas spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Incorporate egg whites beaten until stiff to make the cake ultra moist. The flan evokes crème caramel with its slightly jiggly texture. A wonderfully chic retro-looking dessert.
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Cranberry Vinegar
No more wasting stale cranberries that end up in the compost. Recycle all your leftovers and let their red tanginess flavour a vinegar. A good idea for a gourmet Christmas gift.
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Vegan Vegetable Pot Pie
This holiday classic gets a vegan revamp with the addition of a plant-based whole beverage. Made with super moist cornbread, creamy sauce and a hearty mixture of vegetables, including oyster mushrooms that evoke shredded chicken, this familiar dish will meet all expectations.
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Beer and Citrus Osso Buco with Quick Cheese Polenta
Revisit an Italian classic with this pork osso buco recipe garnished with braised fennel, onions and carrots. The pork shanks are cooked long and slow in a broth seasoned with orange, lemon and blond beer. Serve the dish with cheese polenta. A super simple main course both generous and appealing.
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Bacon-Wrapped Mustard Roast Chicken
When you entertain this year, choose simplicity with a foolproof recipe that can be easily made and is perfect for a small group. Wrap chicken, your affordable ally of the holidays, in bacon, roast it, then coat it in a creamy mustard sauce with spices. In collaboration with Aliments du Québec, here’s a generously tasty recipe that’s also sweet on your wallet.