By La Cuisinière | All Recipes , Veal
Veal Lasagna! With mushrooms. It’s the best and most delicate tasting lasagna you will ever taste. Yes! Here is a quick and easy way to make a delicious lasagna using the ground veal I often find in my (and your) neighborhood markets. At close to seven dollars a pound, ground veal is more expensive than the leanest ground […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes
Homestyle Holiday Recipes – Everyone has favorite holiday recipes. Most likely these are recipes your Mom or Grandma used to make only around the major holidays. A few years ago, I decided it was time to collect and organize all those recipes clippings, and then, create a virtual personal cookbook. [yellowbox]In a hurry? Click on […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes
It is easy to prepare an artisan pizza for those of us who are following a gluten-free diet. Our sample is a take on a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich. The crust (made by Schär® and found in the natural food aisle at the supermarket) bakes up crisp, crunchy but more importantly – flavorful. A year […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes
Cherry Chocolate Bars Recipe – These bars are a rich and moist variation of the traditional “gooey” brownie bars. Bake a pan full of colorful brownie treats. They make wonderful food gifts to bring to the office at Holiday time. In a hurry? Who does not like cherries or chocolate? Close your eyes and imagine […]
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By La Cuisinière | Seafood
Johnnys Blues Wild Maine Mussels. You should remember that name. I can make a meal out of a bowl – or two – of mussels. Forget the restaurant entrée. I’ll take two servings of what is considered an appetizer. In a hurry? Look into fresh Maine seafood and semi-homemade seafood appetizers. Moules Marinières Or Mussels […]
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By La Cuisinière | Menu Ideas , Seafood
Do you need a menu idea? We can’t resist taking on the big name magazines. Adapted from a recipe for sea bass found in Food and Wine magazine, last night’s fish dinner comes from the kitchen of our New Jersey home chef. A quick trip to the supermarket offered halibut but not sea bass. No […]
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By La Cuisinière | Veal
I’m making my easy Italian meatloaf recipe! It was the first recipe that came to mind last week when I found a special on ground veal. One of Mom’s signature “entertainment” menus featured veal Marinara as the main dish. Not veal cutlets, but a thick, fork tender patties the size of a small saucer drenched […]
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By E. Grace | Side Dishes
Best Italian Antipasto Salad: It’s simply the best antipasto chopped salad – from central Pennsylvania! Antipasto is the traditional first course of an Italian meal. It is served before the main course and literally means, “before the meal.” Don’t fill up on the first course but mamma mia! Click HERE for many more scrumptious Italian appetizers. […]
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By La Cuisinière | Soups
Easy Pork And Cabbage Soup – Time for Peking pork and cabbage soup! Certain soups just scream comfort food during cold winter months. This is one soup that is easy to serve at any time, especially if you love Chinese food. Buy the main course but make this easy Peking pork and cabbage soup. […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Fractured Prune Doughnuts – Some people swear by Dunkin Donuts®. Others would give their left arm for Duck Donuts, but any trip to the Delaware beaches is not complete without a Fractured Prune® “doughnuts” breakfast treat. These donuts are fresh, made to order, hot out of the fryer little bits of cake-like goodness that melt […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Best Apple Varieties – There are so many apple varieties to choose from at a farmer’s market! It is not always easy to recognize which apple is perfect for pie and which one tastes best as a healthy, juicy snack. As we ease out of summer and into fall, I’ve been checking the local farmer’s […]
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