Hi, I’m Vanessa. Half-French. Half-American. All Foodie.

I’m a home chef who learned much of what I know cooking with my mother in France, but also studying at Peter Kump’s cooking school, now the Institute of Culinary Education in New York.

This is my new site where I am slowly bringing over hundreds of recipes from chefdruck.com, my chronicle of a life of feasting.

“Il faut vivre pour manger, et non manger pour vivre.”

“We must live to eat, and not eat to live.”

15 years of content takes a long time to migrate. Please enjoy the gradual relaunch of French Foodie Mom: a recipe repository and email me at chefdruck@gmail.com if there are any recipes you loved that you don’t see here yet.

Let the feasting begin again!

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Recipes make their way into this blog after three dinner trials. Hope your family likes them as much as ours does.

Costa Rican Chicken: or at least my attempt to recreate this vacation favorite
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Costa Rican Chicken: or at least my attempt to recreate this vacation favorite

Costa Rican Chicken - When we travel in Costa Rica, many of the tours we take serve this delicious fall off the bone chicken dish with a side of rice. Nothing beats being in Costa Rica, surrounded by beautiful pairs of scarlet macaws, but over the years, when we miss our Pura Vida vacations, this is the closest I’ve come to recreating this family favorite dish.

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Vive la France! Here are my favorite French recipes.