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1 Cook, 2 Countries & A Taste For World Cuisines: Cooking A La Mode De Chez Nous - Cuisine d'Hier Et d'Aujourd'hui! For the love of home style cooking and great food. Memories are made of this!

Mar 17

Ritter’s Green Tomato Relish: Top Condiment For Pennsylvania Beef BBQ

By La Cuisinière | Pennsylvania Dutch Country Recipes

Ritter’s Green Tomato Relish – “Green Tomato Relish is what this recipe needs!” According to the DH, green tomato relish is the missing ingredient when making his mom’s “Beef Barbecue” recipe. Not just any relish mind you but Ritter’s Green Tomato Relish! Intro To Ritter’s Green Tomato Relish Every so often, I get a request from the […]

Mar 14

Easy Amish Cinnamon Bread Recipe: Favorite Sweet Treat

By La Cuisinière | Baked Goods

Easy Amish Cinnamon Bread – This past Saturday was a perfect baking day. Day long heavy drizzle and chilly temperatures just made me want to spend the day in the kitchen baking a loaf of fresh bread – cinnamon bread – after leafing through a downloaded copy of a new cookbook. This recipe for Cinnamon […]

Mar 12

French Rabbit Stew Recipe: Best Civet De Lapin Maison

By La Cuisinière | Comfort Foods , French Country Cuisine Recipes

Easy Rabbit Stew Recipe – Basically, it’s a simple stew recipe that could easily be made with chicken but do try it with game. The flavors are very distinct. At home, we call it a Civet de Lapin. My great-grandmother was quite the home chef. She could prepare all types of wild game recipes but rabbit was […]

Mar 09

Vintage Cookbook Recipes: Secrets To Keeping Family Dinner Memories

By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings

Vintage Cookbook Recipes: Raise your hand if you have a collection of cookbooks or recipe clippings? Do you have the vintage recipes organized in a beautiful handmade recipe binder? That’s what I thought. We all do to a certain extent. Some of us foodies perhaps more than others but every collection started with a single cookbook. […]

Mar 05

Miniature Reuben Sandwiches: Quick Easy Game Day Recipe

By La Cuisinière | All Recipes , Appetizers , Sandwiches

Miniature Reuben Sandwiches make perfect appetizers for any occasion but they are particularly appreciated when football season is in full swing. They are quick and easy to prepare assembly line style but it does take a little time to pass them under the broiler. The Reuben has always been a part of my sandwich “repertoire”. […]

Mar 02

Cinnamon Roll Cake: Quick and Easy Baked Goodness

By La Cuisinière | All Recipes , Baked Goods

Cinnamon Roll Cake: Sunday brunch seemed like the perfect opportunity to try out a recipe for a cinnamon roll cake. There was simply no time to prepare a family favorite – real cinnamon rolls from a traditional, yeast activated sweet roll dough. But…this quick to prepare, light as air version required barely 30 minutes in […]

Feb 26

Cooking Picnic Ham: How To Make Dinner For A Crowd!

By La Cuisinière | All Recipes

Cooking Picnic Ham – The centerpiece at dinner tonight was an 8 and 3/4 pounds glazed picnic ham. Earlier this afternoon, it spent four hours slow roasting in the oven. The slow roasting allowed most of the fat to render under the skin which crisped up rather nicely. It came off in two neat pieces […]

Feb 19

Bread & Butter Pickles: Best Farmer’s Market Recipe

By La Cuisinière | Condiments & Relishes

Bread and Butter Pickles – Along with the chicken and potato salads dressed with homemade mayonnaise, Granny’s Bread And Butter pickles were another featured favorite at our hometown farmer’s market. This recipe is for everyone who loves the “fresh from the farm” flavors of homemade foods and condiments. With “Cornichons” as my idea of a […]

Feb 17

Comparing Healthy Cookware

By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings

As it happens, stainless steel is and was a good choice in healthy cookware but when I think back to my first kitchen purchase…what comes to mind is that the decision had been made for me. The purchase of this particular set of cookware was made for the sake of convenience but even then I […]

Feb 16

Baked Brie Bites For Your Apéritif

By La Cuisinière | Appetizers

Baked Brie Bites – This quick and easy appetizer is sure to make an appearance at our next family gathering. Everything about this easy appetizer centerpiece recipe is a winner in my cookbook. A well arranged cheese platter should include a variety of cheeses but in our home a wheel of brie is always the […]

Feb 15

Quick Cinnamon Bread: Top Sunday Morning Breakfast Treat

By La Cuisinière | Pennsylvania Dutch Country Recipes

Quick Cinnamon Bread – Why? Because I had all the required ingredients! How’s that for a reason to bake a loaf pan of Quick Cinnamon Bread? In keeping with the tradition, Mom also gave me two Pennsylvania Dutch cookbooks to add to my starter collection of cookbooks from around the world. During one of our short visits […]

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