Maple-flavoured fruit salad with strawberries and grapes (Salade de fruits à l’érable)

Jane Livingston, a baker and caterer in Knowlton, created this refreshing salad to serve with her muffins and scones. Use the first Quebec strawberries and the best imported green seedless

Orzo Primavera

Shawna Goodman-Sone, Montreal cooking teacher and talented family cook, remembers enjoying this dish at a friend’s house. “I played with it a bit and adjusted it to meet my taste

Rhubarb Muffins (Muffins à la rhubarb)

Rhubarb is one of the first spring foods to ripen. These muffins were favourites with Joan Richardson of Sally’s Pond outside Knowlton. One day, she tried “trail mix”, the combination