By La Cuisinière | Soups
Chinese Bok Choy Soup and many Asian style soups are easy to prepare and require a minimum of ingredients. Although this soup sounds much like one of our favorite Chinese soups, the ingredients are somewhat different. Different mushrooms, different broth, different way to prepare the meat. Making Chinese Style Soups Dry Ingredients For Chinese Style Recipes […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes
Braising Pork Tenderloin – This recipe for pork medallions (médaillons in French) in a rich mushroom sauce is the ultimate set it and forget it method to prepare pork tenderloin. It is both quick and easy when using your favorite slow cooker! For this meal, the pork tenderloin is sliced into thick medallions and slow cooked to […]
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By La Cuisinière | World Cuisine Recipes
Russian Beef Stroganoff Recipe – Buy the best and freshest ingredients and you will be rewarded with incredible layers of flavor. A Russian Stroganoff recipe is made of tender strips of seared beef, gently combined with mushrooms and onions sautéed in butter. Mix in a rich cream sauce with a hint of sherry and serve […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Best Mushroom Bisque – Nearly all the old-fashioned recipes I adapt from my French grand-mère’s and great-grand-mère’s culinary repertoires were originally prepared with locally sourced ingredients. These ingredients were as fresh as lettuce, herbs and veggies picked from the vegetable garden a mere hour before dinner. Our dairy products came from the farm at the bottom of the […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Wild Mushroom Bisque Soup – The temperatures may not be representative of the season but it’s soup time regardless. I thought it would be fun to cook my way through an old cookbook I found at home in France while visiting earlier this month. The 200 plus page cookbook has an entire chapter on mushroom […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Poulet Sauté Sauce Bercy – Friday nights meals are prepared from orchestrated sweeps of the pantry and fridge. Sometimes, all those leftovers and random ingredients come together to create a restaurant style dinner. Tonight, the main ingredient is chicken in the form of split boneless and skinless breasts. For Mom, I bought some boneless and […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
White Coq Au Vin – Call it Coq au Riesling because this easy recipe for a chicken stew in white wine is as varied as there are regions and cooks in France. This recipe is perfect for a crowd – economical and very tasty! Even I have prepared this recipe with different cuts of chicken […]
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By La Cuisinière | Soups
Easy Homemade Mushroom Soup – Today is homemade soup day and I’m getting ready to make homemade mushroom soup. Mushroom soup in all its variations takes the number one spot on our list of easy homemade soups. Calling All Mushrooms Lovers! Don’t pick wild mushrooms for food unless you can distinguish the harmless variety from the poisonous kind. […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes , Comfort Foods
Simple Salisbury Steak Recipes – They are easy to find. The trick is to find an easy comfort food dinner recipe – or prepare one – that delivers a big flavor punch from the thick, rich beef gravy and the caramelized onions and mushrooms. Every bite of meat must be coated in gravy! It’s July 4th so […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Artichoke Mushroom Pie – Following a recent trip to France, my sister sent me a the full size photo of a fabulous artichoke mushroom savory pie she made for dinner. I wondered why she did not include a recipe! When the recipe arrived, she sent the following anecdote along with the detailed directions. Best Artichoke […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes
Pork Pot Roast Slow Cooker Recipe – Let’s start off 2016 with a succulent pork roast dinner! Packed with garlicky flavor, this slow cooked pork pot roast is simmered in white wine until it is “fall apart” tender. This rolled pork roast is surrounded with crispy bits of Pancetta, carrots, celery and as much garlic as […]
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