Happy 145th Birthday Canada

Cats just loves Canada Day. 

Like last year's Canada Day, cats and I spent the day today cooking a red and white meal.

And in the spirit of our Canada, the recipes were in French, from Inspirés - IGA's Quebec cooking magazine. 

I was lucky that all I needed was in one issue. So what was served at somerville kitchen tonight?

White chicken meat with red raspberry sauce.

An easy recipe - chicken coated with coriander and cumin, roasted and then drizzled with a raspberry balsamic vinegar sauce.

The vegetables were red outside white inside cooked radishes.

Why do we eat turnips cooked and radishes raw? This dish flipped the principle and radishes were boiled in a butter sauce. Served hot.

Red potatoes were roasted in a mustard-paprika-thyme coating and sprinkled with white creamy brie cheese once out of the oven. 

Dinner nicely enjoyed with a red raspberry beer - perfect!

Dessert was a first-time cooking adventure for me.

First time I make a rolled cake and first time a flourless one (more like a chocolate omelette given the cake is made of eggs and cocoa). 


Inside it had Ricotta and cream cheese and red raspberries. I cannot take credit for the presentation design though.

 

Dinner and dessert were enjoyed in le jardin, surrounded by those appropriately called Canada Day Sweet Peas - they come up in jardin every year around this time.

And of all, cats had the most fun with flags.