Christmas cookies from Alsace in France filled with raspberry jam. These linzer cookies are mini versions of the big linzertorte, as you use the same ingredients for both. The cookies have a sweet raspberry jam in between the thin and tender cookies.

This is the famous Choucroute recipe with sauerkraut, sausages and pork. This dish is mostly served in the winter period because it is heavy. It is traditionally made with sauerkraut, three different kind of sausages and smoked pork, served together with boiled potatoes. If you are still hungry after this meal, than you didn't eat a real choucroute.

This is one out of hundreds different varieties of the Alsatian bredele cookies you that you will find in Alsace during the Christmas holidays. These hazelnuts cookies have a crispy surface and a slightly chewy interior. The best part is that the cookies can be prepared in advanced, though they can be kept for weeks in a cookie box.

The Christmas cookies called bredele are small and sweet delicacies from the region Alsace in France. They are small dry cookies and every cookie sort has its own special taste. You can find hundreds of different sorts of bredeles and new sorts are produced each year. This particular bredele has a taste of hazelnuts, almond, citron and clove.

This version of the Christmas cookies bredele is a bit different than the most common ones that you will find in the region Alsace in France during Christmas time. Every family have their own tradition of which cookies are to be consider as classical for them. These pumpkinseed cookies can be made six to eight weeks before Christmas. This way they can be kept in a tin box, to let them get the right consistence before they will be eaten.

These bredele resemble snowballs both in the appearance and color. These cookies are dry and crumbly with a taste of vanilla. To make the cookies even more tasteful you can use real vanilla. You can keep the dough in the freezer up to two month, this way you can make them again.

Bouchées à la Reine, one of the traditional French dishes are made with crispy puff pastry shells containing a creamy sauce with veal and chicken and several vegetables. This dish is perfect in the autumn or for the end year celebrations. The combination of cooked puff pastry and the sauce will be a favorite for all gourmets. This recipe is made of a lighter sauce than most common ones.

This French homemade cake made with puff pastry rolls and almond paste filling is a traditional cake served on the six of January. The cake has king crown on top of it and a porcelain figure hidden inside. The tradition is that the person who gets the piece with the figure will be king/queen of the day, and is allowed to decide the activities of the day. You can guess that this cake is very popular among French kids.

This is a different type of the classical puff pastry cheese stick. These sticks will quickly become your guests favorite starter or mingle food at a party. They are easy and quick to prepare but so delicious.

A classical omelet is made with only eggs. This omelet is different both by containing tomatoes, ham, onion and cheese, and for its different shape. This is a way to enhance the flavor of the actual omelet itself and not by serving the ingredients on the side. It is a good idea to serve this omelet as lunch or for a lighter dinner together with a salad on the side.

These buns have a fun name and are easy to do. These are typical French buns that you find at the bakery shops. In French they are called "Escargots (Meaning snails!) aux pommes et raisins". You can serve them with a coffee in the afternoon or maybe eat them for breakfast during the weekend.

This is a sponge roll with a different jam made of the mini plums named Mirabelle. They are typical fruits of the region Lorraine in the north east of France. These plums are mainly eaten as fruit but also very popular for jam or other dessert due to their sweetness.

This is a homemade pie with sauerkraut which is delicious and will impress your dinner guests. The pie resemble a quiche but is made with an traditional pie bottom instead of a puff pastry dough. Making a pie with your fermented cabbage is a good way of using leftover sauerkraut you have at home. It is typical to serve a lettuce salad on the side which fits very good with the flavor of the sauerkraut.

These super easy puff pastry are quick to do and are different appetizers. You just need to decide the shape and what topping you will use before starting. One idea is to shape them differently and to choose three to four different toppings.

Homemade lamb steak with spices inspired from the French Cuisine. The steak needs to cook slowly on low heat in the oven to get a brown crispy surface. Like this the steak will be tender in the center. The steak is a good choice for Eastern celebrations, and fits together with a red wine sauce and asparagus on the side.

A homemade classical creamy cauliflower gratin. This dish fits very well as a side dish for your holiday celebrations, or as a main dish in the week. The gratin can easily be a substitute to a potato gratin. It fits any kind of meat, chicken or fish.

A French cheese cake from the region Alsace where the cake is called käsküeche. The bottom is made like a pie bottom and not like the usual cheese cake bottom with biscuits crumbles. It is big, fluffy, and less sweet than the American or English versions. You can add some citron peel in the cake to have a different taste.

A homemade delicate cake with orange blossom water. This cake is a specialty from the south of France. It is enough with a few teaspoons of orange blossom water for this cake to both taste and smell wonderful. The cake is easy to prepare so even kids can participate.

This homemade classical quiche comes from the French region Lorraine. The pie is easy and simply filled with smoked bacon, it is an open faced pie (as opposed to the typical English closed pies). A green crispy salad fits to it. You can serve it as a lighter dinner or for lunch and it is better served warm.

This homemade sponge cake with melted chocolate in the middle is called chocolate lava cake. When you take the first bite of this cake it will overflow with melted chocolate that resemble hot lava. The cake is cooked in small oven molds and later placed on the plate together with vanilla sauce or ice cream.

A different starter to serve to your guests is this asparagus mousse. It doesn't matter if you use white or green ones, the only difference is that green asparagus give a nicer contrast to the mousse, which will also tastes better if you use fresh ones. This recipe is a great idea for the spring.

This homemade bread can be served as a cake to the afternoon coffee or for breakfast. If you have a sweet tooth, you can eat it with some honey, jam or nutella. It is enriched with both margarine and eggs, which makes the bread very soft and tender.

This is an easy and quick homemade white bread with sunflower seeds. You can serve it for breakfast, to a soup or why not make sandwiches with it for your summer picnic. To make it different you can shape the bread like a big loaf or small balls.

This typical Alsatian homemade hazelnut pie has a thick and crusty pie bottom and needs to rest over the night to get the right consistence. This pie is a good idea as a dessert to end an Alsatian evening after some tarte flambées (which you can also find on this webpage).

This recipe will give you three cakes in one by using one mixture. The cake will divide itself in three different layers while cooking in the oven. The result is a cake with a fluffy sponge bottom, a creamy custard middle, and a moist dense top layer.

To make your own homemade Bearnaise sauce has a reputation to be extremely difficult and complicated. With this recipe the sauce is both easy and quick to prepare, and will impress your dinner guests. It fits nicely together with French fries and meat.

A homemade pie filled with rhubarb and vanilla cream covered with a pillow of meringue. It's the wonderful combination of the sour rhubarb and the sweet meringue that makes this pie a delightful treat for your guests, specially during the summer time when you can use your own rhubarb from your garden.

This is a creamy chocolate mousse with a harder consistence, that fits perfect as a filling in a cake. You can prepare it in two different ways to get two different consistencies. If you prepare it and serve it directly the mousse is more fluffy than if you place it cold for a while.

A homemade inverted pie with a different filling made out of melon and meat. This particularly combination of ingredients might not be a combination you think of when you looking for inspiration to make a pie. Surprise your guests with this different but this tasty mini pies.

A vegetable terrine that fits perfect for a light dinner, or to take with you in the picnic basket a warm summer day. It it easy and fast to make, and taste even better with a green salad on the side. You can use any vegetable you have at home to make a terrine, it's only to use your imagination to come up with the combination of the ingredients.