A storytelling home by Léa Plourde-Archer

Modern tales of a messy abode

Tag: food

  • There are many great things about Turkey but one of the biggest highlights is the food. Turkish cuisine is fresh and full of vegetables, spices, perfectly cooked meat and excellent fish. It can be tasty and quite healthy (though people with a sweet tooth and/or an appetite for all things greasy will find many things…

  • Swiss chard is one pretty vegetable, with bright green leaves and stalks that grow in various shades of white, red, pink, orange or yellow. Prior to setting sight on one of these multicolored bouquets, I’d never felt compelled to try to cook Swiss Chard because they had never been easily available to me. When we…

  • In my latest article for Untapped Cities, I waxed poetic about the one and only Montreal bagel. I was walking on thin ice, writing about bagels on a blog that is based in New York. So far, the debate on Facebook has fallen in the Big apple’s favor, but only because the Untapped readers hailing…

  • These gorgeous (and delicious) blood oranges don’t seem to know if they want to be red or orange. (See below for the blood orange and fennel recipe. Voir plus bas pour la recette de salade au fenouil et orange sanguine) When I finally mustered the will to cut these pretty things, I made the following…

  • Sweet sundays: Spice cake french toast recipe

    A few weeks ago I wrote about how much I love Sundays. Staying in bed until 8h30 AM, chilling with my cats and my boyfriend, then preparing a hearty breakfast. That’s my idea of heaven. Today I was prepared to make crepes. However, we had some leftover spice cake and that inspired me to try…