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. This is the rebirth of my testament to a life of feasting.

15 years of content takes a long time to migrate. Please enjoy the gradual relaunch of French Foodie Mom: a recipe repository.

Let the feasting begin again!

Easy Dinners on Steroids: Boursin Spinach Artichoke Ravioli Bake

Boursin cheese is so good on a cracker or a sliver of red pepper, but it can also transform a dish. Boursin transforms this spinach artichoke ravioli baked dinner and takes it to a whole new level.

Vanessa Druckman 3/9/25 Vanessa Druckman 3/9/25

Warm Chocolate Pudding Cake

Childhood food memories have a special power and hard to recreate but this recipe comes close to my favorite childhood chocolate cake from the now defunct Tootsies Restaurant in Notting Hill in London. They served it in a wooden salad bowl, filled with steaming, crumbly and moist hot chocolate cake. It oozed with chocolate sauce and was, of course, topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Nothing could beat that chocolate pudding cake perfection.

Vanessa Druckman 10/22/24 Vanessa Druckman 10/22/24

Roasted Butternut Squash Soup: the Perfect Way to Celebrate Fall

This simple roasted butternut squash apple soup is my children's comfort food. As soon as the leaves start falling, they start asking for it. They have it for lunch... for dinner... and even for afterschool snack.

Vanessa Druckman 10/22/24 Vanessa Druckman 10/22/24

Fire Roasted Tomato Soup

Fire roasted tomato soup is a celebration of color and flavor. One I can’t get enough of. Is there anything better than tomato soup to beat back the chill of fall and winter? I don’t think so, especially when the tomatoes have the kiss of fire roasting.