By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes , Menu Ideas
We’ve been searching for hidden culinary treasures in rural France. Off the beaten path eateries offering inexpensive yet fabulous food. Imagine the scene… You find yourself somewhere between Paris and Roubaix, just off the Hell of the North cycling route. It’s time to get a bite to eat and a place rest your head for the…
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Boeuf Bourguignon Slow Cooker Recipe – During winter, I love to prepare easy Boeuf Bourguignon in the slow cooker. It is always a huge hit with my kids and grand-kids! Everyone eats in silence. No need to ask anyone if they would like second helpings! While there are many recipes for pot roasts and beef stew (every chef has […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Bastille Day Foods – July is a super busy month for us. In this family we celebrate 3 national holidays! Canada Day on July 1, Independence Day on July 4th and Bastille Day on the 14th. If every province in Canada has a regional specialty, then Quebec lays claim to the traditional poutine. I personally […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Easy Ficelle Picarde Recipe – Few recipes are as “homestyle” as this regional specialty. It may rank as the most famous “dish” from my little corner of France. Ever wondered what to serve in those oh so cute petite oval eared dishes? In our home, this is it! A petit peu de French food vocabulary […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Sausage Stuffed Tomato Recipe: Imagine tomatoes as big as saucers stuffed with a savory sausage mixture just the way Grandma prepared them! The key to success with this simple sausage stuffed tomatoes recipe is to start by selecting large vine ripened tomatoes. Tomatoes should smell like you just picked off the vine in your own […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Easy Skillet Chicken Recipe – This recipe is perfect for a blustery Friday night like the one we had yesterday. We were (and still are as of this writing) smack in the middle of a slow moving nor’easter packing 70 miles an hour wind gusts. With power outages everywhere in our area, I was lucky enough […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes
Jellied Pigs Feet Recipe – Appetizer or first course! This past Saturday, I cooked a pigs feet crock pot recipe to fall-off-the-bone tenderness. The idea was to prepare boneless portions of meat for Mom to coat in mustard, bread and then pan fry to a golden brown. As I deboned the pig’s feet, I thought of […]
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By La Cuisinière | French Savory Cake Recipes
Smoked Salmon Feta Cake – Want to impress your guests with appetizers just a little different than crackers and dip? Try to bake one of these savory loaves! During my “séjour” in France a couple months ago, we prepared impressive apéritif sessions before dinner. Almost like a meal in itself. These little cakes made more […]
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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 | 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 | 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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