Cookbook Nook: Chuck’s Home Cooking by Chuck Hughes – See recipes!

Chuck Hughes, co-owner and executive chef of Montreal’s hot spot, Garde Manger and host of the hit TV show, Chuck’s Day Off now has a new cookbook to add to his many achievements. Chuck’s Home Cooking: Family-Favourite Recipes From My Kitchen to Yours features 85 of Chuck’s favourite recipes geared to the home cook.

Family-friendly recipes

Inside his new book you’ll discover family-friendly recipes for breads, biscuits, soups, stews, vegetables, pasta and pizza, fish and seafood, meat and poultry, desserts, staples and even a chapter called ‘Sugar Shack’.

Best selling author, and celebrity chef

Hughes is the bestselling author of Garde Manger and Chuck’s Day Off. He is also the host of several TV shows including Chuck’s Day Off, Chuck’s Week Off, Chuck’s Eat the Street and most recently, Chuck and the First Peoples’ Kitchen. One of his many claims to fame is that Hughes defeated Iron Chef Bobby Flay in the battle of Canadian Lobster and starred in The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs. He lives in Montreal with his partner Sabrina and two sons, Charlie and Henri.

Featured recipes

Drawing on his years of professional experience, this busy father of two shows home cooks how to make delicious family-friendly meals like Chicken Schnitzel, Mom’s Meat Pie with Fruit Ketchup, Fish Burgers, Lamb Regu with Conchiglione, Seafood Chowder and Brussels Sprouts with Spicy Maple Vinaigrette.

Easy-to-follow Instructions

While some recipes may sound fancy (like Quebec Snow Crab Omelette with Wild Ramp Pesto), the instructions are easy to follow. Other recipes (like Hot Dog Bun French Toast) are kid-friendly and super easy to make. Just glancing at the gorgeous photos of Maple Baked Beans, Crusty White Bread and Maple Pecan Pie make me immediately want to run to the kitchen and make these recipes.

Nod to Quebec

Hughes pays tribute to his home province of Quebec in the chapter called Sugar Shack featuring recipes like Tire d’érable (taffy boiled down from maple syrup and traditionally served on snow and rolled into sticks) and Crepes au Sirop d’érable —his version of the famous crepes with maple syrup served at Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello in Quebec.

‘Chuck’-full of enticing recipes

From Breakfast to Desserts and Staples, Chuck’s Home Cooking is ‘Chuck’-full of enticing recipes that will inspire readers to skip the take-out line and make great food at home.

Click HERE for Chuck Hughes’ Famous Seafood Chowder Recipe!

Excerpted from Chuck’s Home Cooking Family-Favourite Recipes From My Kitchen to Yours. Copyright © 2024 by Chuck Hughes. Cover and interior photography by Marc-André Lavoie. Published by Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. All rights reserved.

by Laurie Wallace-Lynch

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