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How to Swap Ingredients and Fix Seasonings Perhaps, you are out of an ingredient for a recipe. Want to make it anyway? You can have fun swapping ingredients. Are you […]

Boost Immunity: Cooking and Eating Tips My culinary journey begins in the garden. Yours may start in a farmers market, grocery store or coop. Here are some other cooking and […]

How Leslie Cerier Became The Organic Gourmet As a young girl, I loved to cook and eat. And when my grandma Ethel was getting on in her years, and I […]

Improvisational Cooking for Health and Vitality In this hands-on vegetarian cooking class, I present whole foods that are not just good for you, but also pleasurable and delicious.. Come cook [...]

Seasonal Cooking for Your Immune System; Healthy Indulgences; New Cooking Classes In Person and on Zoom  Autumn Greetings Hope you are all deliciously well. Thanks to all that came this […]

Yesterday, my neighbor Matt bicycled over with 2 dozen farm fresh eggs in a basket. And we talked about whether to refrigerate them. And he said that if the eggs […]

In this gluten and dairy free private hands on cooking class for health and pleasure, I will teach you how to expand your organic, farm to table cooking experience.  The […]

Immerse yourself in nature; allow your cares to disappear as you step into Leslie’s beautiful natural home for your Gourmet Getaway in the woods in Western MA.

  A recent shopping trip to my local coop brought up a delicious memory. The abundance of organic meyer lemon trees filled with ripe fragrant lemons. Everyday, while training chefs […]

CHICOPEE, Mass. (Mass Appeal) August 15, 2013 – Why is everyone going gluten free these days and how can you do it? Leslie Cerier, the Organic Gourmet, came onto Mass […]

Fresh picked from the garden. Summer’s last tomatoes, salad greens and edible flowers seem extra special as we move into fall. Heartier seasonal meals await us. Grateful for the delicious [...]

Cilantro Pesto is great on pasta and super inside vegetarian sushi. Today, I ventured beyond just adding salad greens, hemp seeds and black sesame seeds to my exotic organic Jade […]

Clusters of puff mushrooms are growing on the wood chips around my organic raspberry patch. Thank you very much mother nature for this free delicious food. Puff mushrooms are like […]

Leslie Cerier, The Organic Gourmet sitting in the organic herb garden offering cooking tips and recipes for fresh dill, cilantro, rosemary, and parsley. Salad dressings, cilantro peanut sauce, [...]

Gathering organic, cheerful, fresh, bright, orange, Mexican Sunflowers at my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) organic farm in Amherst, MA. These flowers are pretty in a vase. With the [...]