In pursuit of Vialone

The other day I happened to be in Quebec City. As I was wandering the streets of the old Quebec, I dropped in on one of the better known culinary specialty shops on rue Saint-Jean (more on that in another post). I was hoping to find one or…
A wedge of Riopelle cheese
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Le Riopelle – Artist or Cheese?

The cheese, actually. But... "Le Riopelle de l'Isle" is a triple cream cheese from Quebec. More specifically, from l'Isle-aux-Grues, which is part of an archipelago of islands in the middle of the St. Lawrence river east of Quebec somewhere…
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I love cheese…

Anyone who knows me also knows I love cheese. Soft ones, hard ones, mouldy ones, stinky ones, blue veined ones… I love them all. We don’t have any really great cheese shops where I live so it usually means a treck to Downtown Toronto where…
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Cedar Planked Salmon with Chardonnay

Continuing the theme of summer BBQ's and grilling, one of my favorites, with a perennial WOW! factor on my friends and guests, is a braided, cedar planked salmon (Get the fully documented recipe from my ZenGourmand.com site). I usually serve…

The Zen Gourmand Product Line

The Zen Gourmand has been messing around in the Kitchen developing some of the popular items usually exclusively produced for Spa clients of Julie Moore Spa and is now making them available to the general public under the Zen Gourmand label.…

Cheese Fondue with the Zen Gourmand

I continued my "Zen Gourmand" series of cooking demonstrations and tutored tastings on Saturday January 12th with an authentic Swiss Cheese Fondue and a tasting of three appropriate whites. Traditional convention pairs cheese fondue with wines…
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Cheese Fondue – Traditional Swiss Style

The Zen Gourmand series of cooking demonstrations and tutored tastings continued on Saturday January 12th with an authentic Swiss Cheese Fondue and a tasting of three appropriate whites. Traditional convention pairs cheese fondue with wines…
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Linzer Torte & Champagne

Saturday Nov. 17th saw another successful evening of cooking demonstrations and a tutored tasting of sparkling wines with the Zen Gourmand. The evening started out with the wine tasting. The three sparkling wines tasted were the Peller Estates…
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Rubbing it in

I'm having a great time this summer trying out all kinds of different ways to grill and BBQ foods. Earlier on I posted my secret rib recipe. Well, I have another one now and the title of this post should give you a clue. I finally decided to…
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Ribs on the BBQ – My secret recipe..

There are as many ways to do ribs on the grill as there are grills, I'm sure. Maybe you don't need yet another recipe because yours is the all-time award winning recipe handed down from generation to rib eating generation. Well, I've tried…