Vingt huit. Asparagus and Green Bean Salad (Asperges et salade de haricots verts)~La Cuisine Française

Do you need a spring lift? Just the other day it was 70 degrees and I was ready to sun on the rooftop of my loft. Well almost. I was definitely walking with a “spring” in my step- just me and my dog, thinking of gardening and sunning. Making plans to make light salads and…

Vingt-trois. “Lost Bread” (Pain Perdu)~La Cusine Française

You want to know what to do with old, stale white bread? In olden French days, the wealthy would have cut off the crusts from the white bread (which was usually expensive), dip it in an egg-milk combination and heat on the stove. The poor would have never cut off the crusts-that would have been…

Vingt et un. French Grocery Basket (in your normal grocery store)~La Cuisine Française

SNOW!!!! is coming to the South. So is ice AND sleet and I needed to stock up-fast. I had not created the “French” menu for the week and I almost ditched it in favor of getting bread, cold cuts, canned ravioli, soup, milk and coffee to hunker down. I had already mentioned in an earlier…

Dix-sept. Tricks to French Cooking~La Cuisine Française

Cooking the French way and what I have learned. 1. I was scared at first. 2. I thought Julia Child was the only French Chef who knew everything about French cooking. 3. Butter is often used. One day last week I ran out of butter…and really had to consider cooking a French dish. Olive oil…

Treize. Julia’s French Onion Soup on The French Chef~La Cuisine Française

I wanted to end French cooking in January with a treat! A You Tube video of a master French Chef. She was our All-American gal chef who taught thousands of wanna-be French cooks how to cook like the French. All so romantic, with the hope that we could transform our everyday cooking into something special….

Cinq. Goat Cheese Tart~La Cuisine Française

French cooking, at least in my case, is messy. The above picture had about 3 recipes in the making. One of them was a fabulous tart- Goat Cheese. From a technical perspective-the tart part-the pastry shell took some time to prepare, but you are going to want to keep this pastry recipe for other fanciful…