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Tourtiere French Canadian Meat Pie, Food Gypsy

Tourtière – French Canadian Meat Pie

December 19, 2021
Cori Horton
All Recipes, Beef & Veal, Featured, Pork, The Mains
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Tourtière is a traditional French Canadian spiced meat pie for the holidays. Like ragu in Italy, the Quebecois approach to Tourtière is highly personal. There are as many recipes for tourtière as there are cooks in Quebec! Quebec's Own French…

Kirsch Cherry Pound Cake – A Booze Soaked Tribute to Maritime Fruitcake

December 15, 2015
Cori Horton
All Recipes, Cakes, Featured, Sweets & Treats
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Kirsch Cherry Pound Cake is my tribute to the white cherry cakes shared in the Canadian Maritimes at Christmas. Unlike dark, rum soaked fruitcake chalk-full of candied citrus peel and nuts in a rum soaked batter, during my time in…

Roasted Turkey New Potato Soup

September 10, 2014
Cori Horton
All Recipes, Featured, Starters & Small Bites
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The perfect soup to make use of turkey leftovers, I like to call it 'Thanksgiving in a Bowl' - Roasted Turkey New Potato Soup, as Soup Week continues on Food Gypsy. Making the 'soup du jour' at the big shiny…

Boozy Cranberry-Orange Sauce

December 5, 2011
Cori Horton
All Recipes, Little Extras
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Cranberries, nature's way of making sure we in northern climes get our vitamin C in the cold winter months; sharp and tangy and a must on the holiday table. Boozy Cranberry-Orange Sauce is extraordinarily easy (and fast) to make, a dash of Grand Marnier and hint of orange in a lovely jar, makes it a beautiful hostess gift.

Michael Shannon (aka: The Grateful Griller), Food Gypsy

A Grateful Griller Christmas

November 28, 2011
Cori Horton
Gastronomy
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Once upon a time, a nice boy from Quebec, went shopping for a barbecue (went way over budget) and came home with a the Kamado Cooker. That was ten years and 20+ grills ago, now Michael Shannon (aka: The Grateful Griller) drags heavy, dome shaped grills to your house for a full party experience so you don't have to. (But if he has anything to say about it... you will!) So what would this uber griller suggest for the grilling obsessed this Christmas?