Littlest is trick or treating this year which is mind boggling. I’m sure she’ll score her weight in candy which begs the question what do you do with all your halloween candy? I have friends who freeze it and make Christmas cookies and others who have delicious left-over candy pie recipes. Me? I cherry pick the [...]
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I thought I’d get a jump start on making cornbread for Thanksgiving. I intended to freeze a few batches of this delicious treat, but the thing about cornbread is it smells so darned good. And then people know you’ve made a big batch of it. And then those people, even if they are little, eat [...]
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I used a life line today. Called on an old friend for the answer. No I wasn’t playing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. But I did find myself flat out of time to make dinner today. I pulled out one of my fast food suppers and somehow managed to get dinner on the table [...]
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Carrie Bradshaw laugh your soles off! These are my cooking shoes. I realized I was really in to this whole cooking thing when I began to think of shoes as kitchen accessories. Help?
I love my Dansko clogs. I first started wearing them at the insistence of my podiatrist. A few years back I ran a [...]
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Since I broke in my new ovens and cooktop on such haute cuisine, I thought it was time to kick it up a notch and try some healthier fare at the Schell Cafe.
What do you eat for lunch? Seriously, I’d love to know. It could be an overlooked meal for me as my default mode [...]
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It’s no secret that I adore Ina Garten. Sit a spell at the cafe and you’ll find I have made many of her recipes over the years and even road tripped to Dallas to meet The Contessa in person.
You can imagine my excitement over the fact that in 7 short days THIS comes out!!! [...]
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Four movers, three days, 2 million boxes and a couple bottles of red wine later and we are home. Never mind that we still don’t know up from down, we are home. And it feels so good.
Anybody wanna guess the first thing I made on my new cooktop?
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When was the last time you cleaned out your spices? Seriously.
Here’s the thing. I thought my spices were organized. I really did. I keep my spices in mesh baskets and have them organized by categories like baking spices, savory spices, Italian herbs, Mexican spices, etc. And I thought they were all well within the [...]
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This week we will be moving home! If you’ve been around a while, you know my life has been under construction. We tore our house down to the studs at the beginning of the year and have been putting her back together for the last nine months. A year ago, the real life Schell Cafe [...]
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Don’t forget to submit your entries for the Recipe Contest by tomorrow (Friday) at 5pm! You all have sent so many great recipes and I’m eager to try each of them over the next few weeks. What I failed to consider was how much weight I’m probably going to gain as a result of tasting [...]
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