By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Pigs Feet Crock Pot Recipe – Due to recent technical issues, we had to re-write our original post titled Pigs Feet In White Wine. Only the recipe formatting has changed. This hiccup also made us aware that none of the recipes could be printed! Now you can jump to the recipe, print it right away […]
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By La Cuisinière | Comfort Foods
Easy Boneless Beef Short Ribs Recipe – So it’s not exactly lean and mean, with all that butter and all that wine but it sure is easy. Chop the vegetables while the meat is browning, pour some wine into a pan and add everything to your favorite slow cooker. Saturday is always busy but today […]
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By La Cuisinière | Menu Ideas
Extra Meaty Baby Back RibsNeed a menu idea? Yesterday, at our regular Sunday dinner at Mom’s, we ate extra meaty baby back ribs. I did not feel like breaking out every pan in the kitchen to come up with a special meal. So, what could be easier than buying a disposable foil pan and preparing […]
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By La Cuisinière | Soups
Simple Lobster Bisque Recipe – This Pinterest pin is definitely a teaser for what promises to be a scrumptious and simple lobster bisque recipe. I started early this morning breaking apart two lobsters into body, tails, claws and legs using very handy gadget. Then, I gathered all the vegetables and started the chopping process. In my opinion, […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
I’m cooking Country style braised duck with leeks and carrots and potatoes – in other words, un ragoût de canard au vin blanc – the way my Grandmère prepared it using vegetables from the garden. When she brought out her battered fait tout from the pantry shelf we knew a scrumptious dinner was in the making. Guinea hens, […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes
Martha Stewart Meal Delivery – I collected Martha’s recipes long before I started this home-style cooking blog. Every cook in this family has long standing Martha Stewart “favorite” recipes as part of their cooking repertoire. Yes, I’ve even tweaked Martha’s scrumptious recipes. But… her ingredients and cooking methods are oh so very close to the flavors and […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes
Easy Beef Pot Roast Recipe – In 2015, I participated in a slow cooker challenge. The challenge was to prepare a new recipe every day for an entire month. My participation fell somewhat short of the full challenge but this recipe for an easy beef pot roast was a keeper. You know me by now – […]
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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 | Kitchen Musings
French Food Gift Ideas – Earlier this week, I returned from a trip to France loaded down with a variety of unique ingredients required to prepare some of my favorite recipes. I’m a native of Picardie and we definitely have our share of regional specialties! I’ve spent many years adapting said recipes to make use of […]
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By La Cuisinière | Seafood
Tuna Salad Stuffed Avocado – Here is a simple stuffing to fill avocados, Roma or Kumato tomatoes and even green peppers! Last week, my cousins, sister and I sat around Grand-mère’s dining room table catching up on childhood memories. During my ten days visiting with family and lifelong friends, Eric prepared several fabulous meals including […]
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