After spending some time in Quebec City and the Île d’Orléans, Tomiko and I resumed our Quebec Culinary Adventure, heading to the Charlevoix region between Quebec City and Tadoussac. Fromagerie St-Fidèle is a dairy in the Charlevoix region of Quebec and we stopped here to buy some cheese, obviously! Fromagerie St-Fidèle, founded in 1902, has […]
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Zucchini and Thyme Tart
This zucchini and thyme tart is not really a new recipe. If you’ve browsed through the Kiku Corner archives, you might notice a trend of veggie-based puff pastry tarts. One was a Rustic Puff Pastry Leek Galette, the other a Tomato and Boursin Tart for Mother’s Day. Whatever the combo, I love them. Here, I used summer zucchini, fresh thyme […]
Caribbean Buttered Rum Cake
Tomiko and Donatello used to work on cruise ships for several years, and I flew down to visit them in the Caribbean once. In the Cayman Islands I tried some delicious Rum Cake, which was sold in boxes piled high in almost every store. This recipe is the closest thing to that buttery Tortuga Rum Cake. It’s […]
Radishes on Buttered Baguette
How can I include a recipe for radishes without talking about Rapunzel? I was an avid reader of Grimm’s Fairy Tales when I was a kid (and I mean the morbid Grimm versions, where Cinderella’s stepsisters cut off parts of their feet). In the Rapunzel story, a pregnant woman was craving radishes (or rampion, in some versions) from […]