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Happy birthday Peru!

July 28th 2010

peru_flagToday, July 28, Peru celebrates its national independence day. To honour this joyous occasion, I invite you to prepare a Peruvian speciality: Ceviche.

Cooling down with a “Ceviche”

Originally published in the Journal de Montréal on May 25, 2007.

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Simply super Swedish salmon

May 31st 2010

gravad-lax_salmon_smallOriginally published in the Journal de Montréal on August 5, 2006.

Swedish cuisine is simple and healthy. It is the Swedes who invented the “smörgåsbord”, that famous buffet of hot and cold dishes that are laid out on a large table, ideal for feeding visitors at the end of a long journey.

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A lobster thermidor for your mom

May 9th 2010

lobsterOriginally published in the Journal de Montréal on May 12, 2007.

As Mother’s Day falls on this week, I’m going to recommend a festive and sophisticated dish that will allow you to make the most of the lobster season, right from the start.

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Northern shrimp: a Canadian delicacy

May 7th 2010

shrimp_smallOriginally published in the Journal de Montréal on April 25, 2009.

Like all seafood, shrimp is a good source of protein as well as low in calories and saturated fat. They also contain omega-3 fatty acids, all of which spell good news for those of you watching your weight and your heart.

However, the nutritional content varies greatly among the different types of shrimps available in the market.

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Running on Omega-3

April 26th 2010

omegaOriginally published in the Journal de Montréal on February 24, 2007.

The health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids are now widely acknowledged.

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Snow crab: a local delicacy

April 22nd 2010

snow_crabOriginally published in the Journal de Montréal on April 21, 2007.

Although snow crab harvesting began only 40 years ago, it has now become Quebec’s most lucrative commercial fishing harvest.

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Oven “fried” Fish and Chips!

April 19th 2010

fish_and_chipsOriginally published in the Journal de Montréal on March 24, 2007.

«Fish and chips» is a very popular meal in all English speaking countries, and most particularly in the United Kingdom. Whether in the form of a ‘take-away’ or eaten there and then, the British are so crazy about it that each year, they consume around 260 million meals of fish and chips, most often wrapped in the previous day’s newspaper and bought from one of the 8,000 fish & chips shops.

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