Three years ago, I began my musings here at The Schell Cafe. It’s a little hard for me to believe actually. Granted I’ve taken a hiatus or two during the last thirty-six months. When I was pregnant with Littlest I didn’t have a taste for anything and avoided the kitchen like the plague. Hardly [...]
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I started at least a dozen posts with wonderful recipes I intended to share over the last few days. And here it is Christmas Eve and I didn’t get around to finishing them. I guess I could claim that I’m ahead for next year instead of behind for 2008?!?!
Our Christmas Eve dinner (in a mere [...]
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Hopefully, you are way ahead of me and have finished your holiday shopping, neatly wrapped your perfect packages and tucked them all under a well lit Christmas tree. No? Good, me neither.
If you are still looking for a gift for the foodie in your life, I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite cookbooks [...]
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I know, its a food blog. But I could just eat her up, this Little of mine. Littlest Middlest, as we lovingly call her around the cafe, will be playing the role of Mary today at the kindergarten Christmas pageant. I’m feasting on the joy of motherhood today! May your day be blessed too.
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Here’s a crowd pleaser from the recipe collection of one of my dear friends. She was generous enough to share her chicken enchilada recipe with me during the recipe contest. The entire family gobbled these delicious enchiladas up like we had never had Tex-Mex before.
I doubled this recipe so each of my hungry clan [...]
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I fell in love with bouillabaisse the summer of 1984 when I first lived in France. I was fifteen years old, spoke maybe two words of French and clearly had no idea what (or how) to order at a quaint restaurant one day. Several of the students traveling in my summer program ordered la bouillabaisse [...]
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****We interrupt a very important bouillabaisse post to bring you a weather update from central Texas.****
It snowed last night. Really, it did. I have pictures to prove it. See:
Here’s how the events leading up to the snow unfolded:
December 9, Noon: 81 degrees, warm hot and muggy. Air-conditioning on. Kindergarten Little is forced to remove stockings at the [...]
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Fish stock is so simple to make and is a great way to use an entire fish or shrimp and keep extra or wilting produce from going to waste. This method can be used to make vegetable stock, chicken stock or any combination of flavors depending on what scraps and produce you have on hand. [...]
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