By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
French Tarragon Chicken Recipe – With a beautiful big bunch of fresh French tarragon left in the herb keeper, I made a quick change to the “Sunday dinner with Mom” menu – boneless chicken instead of roast pork.
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Rognons De Veau Aux Champignons – In other words, easy sautéed veal kidneys with mushrooms and shallots in a white wine sauce. Now we’re talking home style comfort food for any day of the week. This is one of the many quick and easy dishes my grandmother would prepare when she came across the freshest veal […]
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By La Cuisinière | Gift Ideas For Someone Who Loves To Cook
Best Stocking Stuffer Gift Ideas For Foodies – Here is my list of supermarket finds that won’t break the bank. Just updated to 9 gift ideas for your favorite foodie! Getting an early start on your Christmas shopping? I know it’s a must for me as I’m usually scrambling to fill everyone’s stockings with favorite […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes
Best Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes – Thanksgiving dinner is the one meal of the year where I make it a point of serving up the family’s favorite traditional style recipes. Down to the desserts. But you’ll have to admit that sometimes, it would be interesting to vary the menu, adapt the recipes or just try […]
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By La Cuisinière | Perfect Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes
Recipe French Bread Stuffing – I’m not sure why it never crossed my mind to make turkey stuffing using a baguette or any other type of French bread such as a Boule or a Pain de Campagne (country bread). Until now. It’s not as if the choice of breads is limited. In fact, the flavor and […]
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By La Cuisinière | Menu Ideas
Thanksgiving Meal Menu Ideas – With just over a week to go before Thanksgiving, I woke up in a start very early this morning overcome by a sense of complete panic. As the chief cook for this big meal, I have never felt so unprepared. Help is needed if for no other reason than for […]
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By La Cuisinière | Baked Goods
The Best marbled pound cake is rich and moist. No frosting is required. Imagine my surprise this morning while cleaning out a drawer, when I came across a old recipe for yet another version of pound cake. While our go-to recipe is Uncle Wen’s lemon pound cake, the family would never refuse any baked goods […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Mary Lake Thompson Recipe Towels – Are you wondering about gift ideas for someone who loves to cook? Years ago, when we still received APO parcels in the post, several of the packaged items were wrapped with decorative flour sack kitchen towels. The towels were used to protect the gifts but they were also a gift […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Christmas Holiday Dinnerware Sets – Call me old-fashioned like that but I love bringing out the holiday themed dinner sets. I particularly love Spode and Portmeirion china with their very traditional Christmas designs. I guess (no, I know) the love of Spode china and Portmeirion patterns dates back to seeing all those lovely china patterns displayed […]
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By La Cuisinière | Comfort Foods
Cooking Perfect Chuck Roast – Cook perfect chuck roast in the crock pot! I didn’t even have to run to the stockyards for this cut of beef. I came across a few pieces of prime beef chuck a few days ago that just screamed to be slow roasted on a bed of mirepoix in rich […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Blanquette De Veau A L’Ancienne – Maman has spent a lifetime trying (often in vain) to replicate the delicious French country cuisine recipes prepared by her mother and grand-mother. It now falls to me to duplicate the delicate flavors created by two great home chefs. Finding any cut of veal for this recipe in third world […]
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