SSTUDIO COOKBOOK
2023 HOLIDAYS



Sides
  1. No Knead Cheese Bread
  2. The GOAT Cheese
  3. The Best Rice Ever (Seriously)
  4. Toasty Figs

Soups
  1. Cream of Cauliflower and Parsnip with Pan-Fried Scallops and Pancetta Garnish
  2. Broccoli Feta Soup
  3. Roasted Red Pepper & Gouda Soup
  4. Sweet Potato Carrot Soup

Vegetables
  1. Dakos
  2. Winter Tabouleh Salad
  3. Nonna's Stuffed Artichoke Alla Cellolese
  4. Miso Butter Onions
  5. Bubbe's Laktacular Latkes
  6. Dauphinois Potatoes

Pasta
  1. Pasta Déjà Vu
  2. Mascarpone Pasta
  3. Adulting alla Carbonara
  4. Lorighittas with Ragù
  5. Spicy Salsiccia Pasta
  6. Linguini Aglio e Olio
  7. Cheese Wiz Mac
  8. SSausage Rapini
  9. Cam’s Bolognese

Fish & Seafood
  1. Anchovy Recipe for Those Who Don't Like Anchovies
  2. Mama V's Tuna Tartare
  3. Insalata di Mare di Simona e Maria
  4. Honey Salmon with Carrots
  5. Cod alla Bordello
  6. Better than Emily Mariko's Salmon Bowl

Meat
  1. Pad Thai
  2. Korean Oven Baked Chicken
  3. Korean Spicy Pork and Vegetables Over Rice (Jeyuk-deopbap)
  4. Kongnamul Bulgogi aka KongBul
  5. Valentine's Day Chicken Wings
  6. Turkey Scaloppine with Lemon-Caper Sauce
  7. Coconut Chicken Curry
  8. Fashion-Forward Chic Diva-Licious Sloppy Joes
  9. 3 Eggs

Desserts
  1. Coffee Fudge Brownies
  2. Best Brownies Ever
  3. Miso Dark Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
  4. ♡ Baked Vegan Doughnuts ♡
  5. Huey’s Spicy & Chewy Gingerbread Cookies
  6. Pouding Chômeur
  7. The Best (Holiday) Banana Cake
  8. Raw Raspberry Cashew Cake
  9. Greek Yogurt Lemon Blueberry Cake
  10. Key Lime Pie
  11. Lemon Tiramisu

Drinks
  1. Guns N' Roses
  2. Handle With Care cocktail
  3. Zia’s Caffè Corretto

Dog Treats
  1. Jack's Peanut Butter Biscuits
  2. Pupperrific Pumpkin Biscuits



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A note from Cam —

We are releasing this cookbook as a way to celebrate the holidays together. In the midst of our busy lives, the holidays serve as a reminder to pause, be present and express gratitude for the simple joys that surround us.

Regardless of what the news says, there is so much love in the world and this team is a great testimony of that. Despite the many hurdles that we've had to overcome this year, we've always managed to stay kind and relentlessly support one another, even when we were most tired. The understanding and compassion that we all exude on a daily basis is one of the many things that makes this team so special. I am grateful for the grace and kindness that this team has shown me this year and for the love you all have spread.

Whether it's the warmth shared through daily laughter or the joy of gathering together for a meal, let us cherish these moments and carry them through with us to next year.

I’d like invite us all to cheers to our hard work this year and to the love that we've spread and want to take this opportunity to share with you a reflection that has guided me this year. Whenever I feel unsure about the future, I turn to look at the past to see how far I've come. And when I look at how far this team has come over the 10 years I've known it, I know that we'll be just fine in whatever our next chapter is.

Thank you, and happy holiday to you all.




Mark

POUDING CHÔMEUR


DESSERT | 6 servings | 1.25h | ♫ Jean-Pierre Ferland - Le chat du café des artistes
From Annie Quenneville


Pouding chômeur is a staple of Queb cuisine. There are multiple stories about how this recipe came to be. The most plausible is that then Montreal's mayor wife Georgette Falardeau, in a very reverse Marie-Antoinette move, invented it during the Great Depression to raise the morale of workers who had lost their jobs. The four ingredients in the recipe could be procured with food stamps. That's why dark brown sugar (cassonade in French) was used instead of sugar sugar.
    Folks who make this recipe for the first time are usually mesmerized by the fact that the dough and the liquid inverse while cooking. My mom serves it with ice cream, and this is her recipe. Everyone has put their spin on it and added from the original 4 ingredients.
    There was a pouding chômeur gate in Quebec in 2015, the biggest culinary beef we've ever had. Chef Caroline Dumas from SoupeSoup accused Danny St-Pierre of stealing her recipe word for word. Which is hilarious considering how easy the recipe is.
    Danny St-Pierre used to be the landlord of the POP Montreal offices when I worked there, and since he doused one of our volunteer's car in mustard just because he mistakenly parked in his spot, I'm going to side with Caroline Dumas here. (There was a "spill the tea" section to this intro, right?)


INGREDIENTS 
Sauce:
  1. 475 ml dark brown sugar
  2. 475 ml boiling water
  3. 15 g butter

Cake:
  1. 10 g butter
  2. 100 g sugar
  3. 250 g flour
  4. 20 g baking powder
  5. 250 ml milk

PREPARATION
  1. With the rack in the middle position, preheat your oven at 350°F (180°C). Butter a deep baking dish.
  2. In a small pot, combine all sauce ingredient and simmer for 5-10 minutes while whisking. Remove from the heat.
  3. In a bowl, mix baking powder and flour.
  4. In another bowl, using an electric mixer on low speed or a spatula, whisk together the butter and sugar, then add the flour mixture and alternate with the milk until everything is combined.
  5. Transfer the sauce to the buttered dish and pour the batter on top. Yes, sauce first. Don't worry if it's not perfectly leveled.
  6. Bake until golden brown for about 35 minutes or when a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes.





POUDING CHÔMEUR


DESSERT | 6 portions | 1 h 15 min. | ♫ Jean-Pierre Ferland - Le chat du café des artistes
Par Annie Quenneville


Le pouding chômeur est un élément de base de la cuisine québ. Il existe plusieurs histoires sur l’origine de cette recette. La plus plausible est que l’épouse du maire de Montréal de l’époque, Georgette Falardeau, dans un élan ma foi anti-Marie-Antoinette, l’ait inventé pendant la Grande Dépression pour remonter le moral des travailleur·ses qui avaient perdu leur emploi. Les quatre ingrédients de la recette pouvaient être achetés avec des bons alimentaires. C’est pourquoi on utilisait de la cassonade au lieu du sucre de canne.
Les personnes qui réalisent cette recette pour la première fois sont généralement hypnotisées par le fait que la pâte et le liquide s’inversent pendant la cuisson. Ma mère le sert avec de la crème glacée, et voici sa recette. Tout le monde y a mis son grain de sel : elle a été élaborée à partir des 4 ingrédients d’origine.
    Il y a eu un pouding-chômeur-gate au Québec en 2015, le plus gros conflit culinaire que nous ayons jamais eu. La chef Caroline Dumas de SoupeSoup a accusé Danny St Pierre d’avoir volé sa recette mot pour mot. Ce qui est hilarant quand on sait à quel point la recette est facile.
    Danny St Pierre était le propriétaire des bureaux de POP Montréal lorsque j’y travaillais, et puisqu’il a aspergé la voiture d’un de nos bénévoles de moutarde juste parce qu’il s’était garé par erreur à sa place, je vais me ranger du côté de Caroline Dumas ici. (Il y avait une section « potins » dans cette introduction, n’est-ce pas?)


INGRÉDIENTS
Sauce :
  1. 475 ml de cassonade
  2. 475 ml d’eau bouillante
  3. 15 g de beurre

Gâteau :
  1. 10 g de beurre
  2. 100 g de sucre
  3. 250 g de farine
  4. 20 g de poudre à pâte
  5. 250 ml de lait

PRÉPARATION
  1. Placez la grille en position centrale et préchauffez votre four à 350 °F (180 °C). Beurrez un plat de cuisson profond.
  2. Dans une petite casserole, mélangez tous les ingrédients de la sauce et laissez mijoter pendant 5 à 10 minutes tout en fouettant. Retirez du feu.
  3. Dans un bol, mélangez la poudre à pâte et la farine.
  4. Dans un autre bol, à l’aide d’un batteur électrique à basse vitesse ou d’une spatule, mélangez le beurre et le sucre, puis ajoutez le mélange de farine et le lait en alternance jusqu’à ce que tout soit bien mélangé.
  5. Transférez la sauce dans le plat beurré et versez la pâte sur le dessus. Oui, la sauce d’abord. Ne vous inquiétez pas si elle n’est pas parfaitement nivelée.
  6. Cuire au four jusqu’à ce que le pouding chômeur soit doré, environ 35 minutes ou lorsqu’un cure-dent en ressort propre. Laissez refroidir pendant 10 minutes.

Mark