By La Cuisinière | All Recipes , Kitchen Musings
We’ve collected the top 10 recipes of 2018! Judging by the stats for this year, these are our readers’ favorite recipes. However, the favorites keep changing from day to day during the last week of December! Favorites include everything from condiments to one pot meals and classic recipes from both sides of the Atlantic. But […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes
Copycat Rib Sandwich – Another Monday and I’m sitting down to document a few more kitchen musings. Faced with a larger than usual leftover selection as well as fresh meat and seafood – it needs to be cooked. Today or tomorrow at the latest. A Cornish hen Two beautiful skate fillets One and half pounds […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Best Kitchen Mandoline Slicer – It all started with a stroll down my favorite aisle at Harris Teeter®. There is always something sitting on the shelf in the way of international foods that inspires me to prepare a dish from long ago. In a hurry? Not all vegetable slicers are created equal but vegetable slicers are available […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Melamine Outdoor Dinnerware Sets – Melamine dinner plate sets turned out to be the ideal compromise! My sister hates paper plates so, for Mom’s birthday event, I had to come up with something better than paper – something that did not require us to spend hours washing heavy stoneware dishes something along the lines of the best […]
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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 | Kitchen Musings
Book shaped dinner plates – Eating on book shaped dinner plates is the perfect way to bring your books to life especially those classic titles that contain memorable recipes! The idea came to my mind last night when I reached for a book that contains a description for one of most memorable treats from days gone by […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Jacqadoodle’s unique fridge magnets and note cards are part of the newest rage – doodle art ideas and creative drawing. We all doodle – in the margins of a school notebook, on a napkin, sometimes just for fun, sometimes almost as therapy in beautiful sketchbooks . And it’s not just us girls. Boys love to doodle too! These […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
This Fissler® pressure cooker set basically sold itself on versatility alone! Over the years, I’ve had several different makes and sizes of pressure cookers. Some were practical others not suited for everyday cooking. I started with a 4-quart avocado colored Presto with the rocking pressure gauge (the avocado color should date me easily enough). My […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Side By Side Refrigerator – My new basement “ice box” is a Samsung side by side refrigerator. Out of necessity, most of this past weekend was spent hunting for a new fridge. It was not an easy task with so many models, both new and discontinued, now available for sale. Many models are being discontinued […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Taste of Home Cooking Magazine – Which is your favorite Taste of Home® cooking magazine? Trying to duplicate the “taste of home” is the very reason I started cooking years ago when we sorely missed the flavors of familiar home-style dishes. What Others Cook ==> flavors From Local Cuisines Around the Globe Taste Of Home […]
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By La Cuisinière | Kitchen Musings
Cuisinart DLC-X Plus – As of February 2016, parts for this specific food processor were already difficult to find. The limited stock of replacement parts is now completely gone. Update a.o. November 2018: This article was originally published in February of 2016 when replacement parts for the original DLC-X were still available in limited quantities but dwindling fast. […]
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