I've been looking to the food of South of France lately in my attempt to prolong summer as much as possible. In particular, I've recently rediscovered a dish I used to love: the pissaladière. Pissaladière is a classic dish from Nice. It's basically Southern France's answer to pizza. One of the key ingredients in pissaladière, anchovies, are unfortunately not the most popular in the United States. But I personally love the intense flavours and saltiness of the pissaladière and it's actually very easy to make at home. Only a few ingredients are needed to make a pissaladière: Caramelized onions (use 2-3 sliced yellow onions) Niçoise olives (use other black, preferably oil-cured olives if ...
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Celebrating Poutine Week… in Washington, D.C.
I think I may have mentioned it a few times on this blog, I used to live in Montreal, Quebec. For 4 years. You'd think this would mean I'd be able to weather this cold snowy winter like a champ, right? Well, not quite. But it means I have learned to appreciate Quebec delicacies like shish taouk and poutine (and Molson beer... let's be honest). Montreal has changed a lot since I lived there. It's still cold. But it now has macaron shops and poutine week. POUTINE WEEK!!! Are you kidding me!?!? It's basically like our Restaurant Week except between February 1st and February 7th, there are 30 restaurants that offer special poutines for $10. Do you have any idea how all over that I would have ...