This blueberry version of Pouding Chômeur is sure to brighten up a gloomy day! Blueberry pudding cake • Photography © Bottle and Brush Studio 2021 A pudding cake is a simple recipe and only requires staple and affordable ingredients. The traditional Québéc dessert “ Pouding Chômeur ” (unemployed pudding) wears its name for that reason. There are many variants, like my Berry Picker Pudding Cake . This one is a bit lighter (with milk instead of cream) and cheaper (with brown s

Enjoy the rich pork belly taste with a perfect blend of festive and seasonal flavours. Pork belly is a very popular cut of fatty pork in...

A winter rejoicing citrus recipe with sweet syrup, spices and whisky! Cooking and preserving citrus in winter is fun! Being able to...

When the cool season kicks in, there is nothing better than roasted chestnuts! Roasting chestnuts when the weather gets cool is a great...

Poached in honey-sweetened water, here's the story behind a Montréal-style bagel recipe adapted for my little home kitchen in Australia. Homemade Montreal-style bagels • Photography © Bottle and Brush Studio 2021 For years, I kept telling myself that I would try making bagels at home, but it wasn't until the pandemic lockdowns that I finally gave it a go. I don't know why I waited so long—they are so good! One of the things I love most about making Montréal-style bagels at ho

Dip seasonal fruits in this creamy melt of chocolate flavoured with hazelnuts. Chocolate fondue Is such a delicious dessert or afternoon...

A healthy and incredibly delicious soup, with an abundance of fresh coriander permitted! When my garden coriander (cilantro) is at its...

A variation of the humble Québec-style shepherd’s pie with freshly harvested vegetables. Garden version of a Québec-style shepherd's pie • Photography © Bottle and Brush Studio 2021 A shepherd's pie is an old and typical dish to people from many countries of Europe, North America and Oceania... but there are recipe variants and ways to name it depending on where you come from. In most English-speaking countries, a shepherd's pie is made with lamb and a cottage pie with beef.

Here is an excellent tuna cake recipe made with pantry staples and garden ingredients. When summer is almost over and you are growing...

This combination of elephant garlic and bushspices with parmesan on bread is so worth trying! When I discovered that the perennial...

A chicken roasted with a bouquet of herbs and garlic, a perfect recipe for a cloudy summer day. I really love a roast chicken from time...

A recipe with miniature eggs and buns, inspired by the Québec traditional "guédilles". A Québec-style guédille is a roll with a grilled...

Enjoy a bowl of freshness with some superstar ingredients! Lettuce is at its best in spring, but there is not much other than herbs and...

Preserved lemons in salt are incredibly simple to prepare and absolutely delightful! I have always loved food and drinks with lemon, but...

Québec’s unique traditional meat spread, an essential element for a Sugar Shack-style brunch! Pork cretons homemade in Australia with garden seasoning • Photography © Bottle and Brush Studio 2021 "Cretons" is a pork-based pâté generally served on toasted bread with breakfast. This forcemeat-style spread is typically French Canadian, and there is no English word for it. “Toasts with creton, please », my friend Valérie asked as a breakfast order in a Tim Horton café in the wes

A Québec traditional pudding cake made with love and maple syrup. Pouding Chômeur dessert • Photography © Bottle and Brush Studio 2020 Pouding Chômeur (unemployed pudding cake) was created during the Great Depression in Québec. This recipe has different variations, and the original and most affordable ones are made with flour, butter, egg, milk and brown sugar. It is sooo delicious, and the best ones are definitely made with pure maple syrup , and always served in sugar shack

Discover the Québec tourtières , an ancestral meat pie dish always found on our holiday tables . A classic festive "tourtières" with tomato ketchup • Photography © Bottle and Brush Studio 2024 To smell and taste the distinct flavour of traditional Québec tourtières is something that brings Québécois expatriates all over the world straight back home, filled with memories. What always comes to my mind is a white Christmas, my family, and our holiday buffets where meat pies wer

A sweet and savoury Québec-style baked beans recipe, re-adapted in Australia. Maple & bacon baked beans dish • Photography © Bottle and Brush Studio 2023 We all know this iconic comfort dish, but in Québec, you'll find old-fashioned maple baked beans served with a classic lumberjack-style breakfast or at sugar shacks throughout the province. Québec-style baked beans are called fèves au lard("lard beans"), although in everyday Québec French we often use the slang term bines (p

When fresh cheese curds and black truffle once met in my little Aussie kitchen, this rare poutine, also called my “Mission Impossible”, was finally accomplished ! Homemade classic poutine topped with fresh grated truffle • Photography © Bottle and Brush Studio 2018 Homemade truffle poutine … ho.my .god. I was lucky enough to improvise, photograph and taste this one. It happened on a sunny winter day during my first poutine photo session. Québec cheese curds are nearly imposs

More than fries, gravy and cheese, a poutine is a Québec cultural touchstone. Living abroad means moments of homesickness, and for most expatriated Canadians, especially those from Québec, this is the best remedy for homesickness! Not that it is impossible to make homemade poutine, but outside Québec’s dairy and cheese makers' zone, it can be surprisingly challenging. This probably sounds funny if you’ve never lived or travelled in La Belle Province *... but I will do my best