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All The Recipes!
French Country Cuisine
French Country Cuisine Recipes: Country and home style French food crafting – Recipes from our family kitchen through the generations. Cuisine d’hier et d’aujourd’hui!
- Pâté de Campagne Recipe: How To Make An Impressive First Course
- Rillettes De Porc: Easy & Inexpensive Recipe For A Popular Appetizer
- Poulet Sauté Sauce Bercy: Easy Restaurant Style Chicken Dinner
- Smoked Salmon Feta Cake: Make A Savory Appetizer Loaf
- Easy Ficelle Picarde Recipe: French Country Comfort Food
- Veal Stew Recipe Slow Cooker: Making Comfort Food Easy & Quick
- Hidden Culinary Treasures In A Small French Town: The Classic Trou Normand Revisited
- Classic French Cassoulet Recipe: Secrets To The Best One Pot Meal
- Artichoke Mushroom Pie: Interview With An Expert Foodie!
- Pan Seared Veal Chops: Easy Normandy Style For Creamy Goodness
Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes
Family recipes for traditional Pennsylvania Dutch Country recipes and dishes prepared by generations of Big Valley and Montgomery County German, Dutch and Swiss ancestors.
A collection of time tested recipes we all love and prepare to celebrate certain seasons like Shoo-fly pie at Thanksgiving and sand tarts for Christmas. Certain recipes also make an appearance at special events like church suppers and family reunions. I will readily admit to having developed a taste for some recipes prepared in the traditional way. Some recipes 🙂
- Quick Cinnamon Bread: Top Sunday Morning Breakfast Treat
- Cinnamon Spiced Peaches: Simple Pennsylvania Dutch Condiment
- Farmers Market Chicken Salad: Margaret’s Popular Recipe Hometown Folks Still Talk About Today!
- Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie: Secrets From Big Valley
- Philadelphia Pepper Pot Recipe: The Perfect Hearty Winter Soup
- Ritter’s Green Tomato Relish: Top Condiment For Pennsylvania Beef BBQ
- Old Fashioned Cucumber Onion Salad: Easy Pennsylvania Dutch Side Dish For Salmon
- Pennsylvania Dutch Pork Ribs: Best Easy Frugal Country Style Dinner
World Cuisine
La Cuisinière has one foot in Northern France and the other in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania but the food we love to eat is as varied as the countries we’ve called home on several continents.
When you “live off the land” just like the natives, the local food of various countries becomes as familiar and memorable as those dishes Grandmother and Great-Grandmother made during your childhood days en France.
Our favorite world cuisine recipes come from a long list of meals we prepared over the years. When we think International cuisines we remember our years in Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.
But that does not push aside popular favorites such as Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai foods. It all tastes SO good! And, let’s not forget all those countries in between – traveling from here to there.
We’re sharing recipes from all those countries we called home. We love to prepare – and eat – both popular and relatively unknown specialties from around the world.
Bon Appétit!
- Easy Chicken Enchiladas Supreme: Enjoy South Of The Border Flavors!
- Easy Greek Spanakopita Recipe: Best Spinach And Cheese Pie
- Make Homemade Gyros Meat: Best Sandwich Anywhere!
- Teriyaki Pork Dinner: Make It Frugal And Easy
- Russian Beef Stroganoff Recipe: Buy The Best Quality Ingredients
- Okinawa Shoyu Pork Recipe: East Asian Sweet & Sour Barbecue
- Easy Eggplant Moussaka Recipe: Supreme Comfort Food
Comfort Foods
According to the dictionary comfort foods are “foods prepared in a traditional style which usually have a nostalgic or sentimental appeal.” So true!
Frosted cakes and candy do not make it to the top of our list. Instead, a fresh crispy baguette with a perfectly ripened cheese will take us back decades. A bowl of steaming hot vichyssoise also brings back memories.
We seek out or make dishes we relished during our thirty odd years in Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. On an even simpler level, it’s anything Mom, Grandma and Great-Grandma prepared in their makeshift kitchens dating back to the turn of the 20th century.
It was and still is – all good!
- Easy Boneless Beef Short Ribs Recipe: Slow Cooked Butter Beef
- How To Prepare Easy Wine Braised Lamb Shanks
- Easy Irish Lamb Stew Recipe: How To Make It With Guinness!
- Cooking Perfect Chuck Roast: Melt In Your Mouth Comfort Food
- Best Meat Chili Recipe: Special For Big Meat Lovers Everywhere
- Homemade Italian Beef Sandwich: Best Meal In A Bun
- Barbecued Country Ribs: Easy Beer Braised Pork
- Homemade Slow Cooker Beef Stew: Easy One Pot Meal
- Crock Pot Roast: Simple & Easy Beef Stew
- Simple Salisbury Steak Recipes: Easy Homestyle Comfort Food
Baked Goods
Baked Goods – Everything from cookies to muffins and other assorted sweets.
- Simple Homemade Cinnamon Rolls: Bake An Easy Thanksgiving Tradition
- Cinnamon Roll Cake: Quick and Easy Baked Goodness
- Sausage and Cheddar Muffins
- Mini Cheesecakes
- Easy Amish Cinnamon Bread Recipe: Favorite Sweet Treat
- Frozen Chocolate Mousse Pie
- Bite Size Cheesecake Recipes: Sweet & Savory Mini Bites of Baked Goodness
- Semi Homemade Birthday Cake: Best Chocolate Bundt Surprise!
- Karo® Chocolate Pecan Pie: Easy Showstopper Dessert
- Maxi Toll House Cookies: Easy Chewy Cookie
Soups
Soups, glorious soups. Warms the heart and the body on those chilly days.
From our easy Chinese style pork and bok choy soup to French mushroom to Dad’s Philadelphia Pepper Pot and everyone’s favorite Lobster Bisque – make every day a soup day!
- Easy Italian Sausage Soup: Best Way To Warm Up Fast
- Philadelphia Pepper Pot Recipe: The Perfect Hearty Winter Soup
- Beef Bone Stock Recipe: Simple Rich Beefy Flavor
- Best New England Clam Chowder: Top Meal In A Bowl
- Chunky Tomato Basil Soup Recipe: Quick and Easy Hearty Meal
- Homestyle Soup Recipes: Top Comfort Food Category!
- Homemade Italian Minestrone Soup: Quick & Easy Comfort Food
- Recipe Homemade Vegetable Beef Soup: Easy Stove Top Meal
- Chorizo Sausage Soup Recipes: How To Unlock Spicy Flavors
- Best Bones For Broth: Cooking Tips & Where To Buy Them
Seafood
You know you like it…shrimp, crab, scallops. Oh did I forget to mention lobster?
- Baked Seafood Platter Recipe: Easy Dinner & Quick Cleanup!
- Easy Shrimp Cheese Grits
- Tuna Salad Stuffed Avocado: Easy Seafood Appetizer
- Easy Seafood Marinade: Best Sauce For Shrimp and Fish Fillets
- Seafood Dipping Sauce Recipes: Perfect For Steamed Shrimp or Fried Calamari
- Easy Pan Seared Sea Scallops: Best Dinner For One or Two
- Wild Maine Mussels: How To Cook The Best Tasting Johnny’s Blues
- Bang Bang Shrimp Taco: Best Restaurant Style Copycat Recipe
- Menu Idea: Halibut & Mixed Greens
- Pan Fried Soft Shell Crab: Favorite Summer Delicacy
Kitchen Musings
No recipes here. Just writing about the perfect kitchen appliance, a unique source for a favorite ingredient, or where to locate the elusive replacement part for “vintage” kitchen gadgets.
So grab you apron and let’s start cooking. It’s all here. You know – when you just have to write it down. Thoughts, sources, how-to.
Our Family Culinary Adventures
These articles feature all types of cooking related information! Years ago, I was jokingly told to “write about it” – the adventures, the travel, the food.
“Why don’t you combine the travel, the adventures and the food we eat every day into a favorite family recipes blog ?” De’s Home Style Food Crafting gives me a platform to write about it!
- Cuisinart DLC-X Plus: Where To Buy Replacement Parts
- Top Leg Of Lamb Cuts: Secrets To The Best Roasts
- Chicken Soup For Colds: Easy Comfort Food Medicine
- Taste of Home Cooking Magazine: Easy Tasty Traditions
- Melamine Outdoor Dinnerware Sets: Buy The Best Quality Plastic Plates
- Cheese Board Knife Sets: A Perfect Gift For Foodies
- Fissler Pressure Cooker Set: Buy The Best & Most Versatile Cookware
- Best Mushroom Bisque: Foraging In Wegmans® Market Potomac Produce Department
- Fresh Versus Frozen Turkey: How To Buy The Holiday Bird
- Comparing Healthy Cookware