We do a lot of chillin’ out on Friday nights at The Schell Cafe. After a week of coming and going in a thousand different directions it’s so nice to reconnect as a family and just hang out. For the Littles this means staying up late and skippin’ baths. Friday nights for the grown-ups usually [...]
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Littlest enjoyed her first corn on the cob tonight. While this is hardly news worthy, it provided a full evening of entertainment at The Schell Cafe. Husband has about 20 minutes of video documenting every kernel. The highlight of which is hearing Littlest say ‘kern’, because that’s the way Husband taught her to say corn. [...]
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Ahhh…Mardi Gras. Here you are again. I knew it was coming when beads started popping up on the store aisles last week and king cakes were positioned front and center at the bakeries. Needless to say there will be lots of revelry taking place tonight as the world seems to embrace this now secular mini-holiday.
We’ll [...]
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I’m always grateful to have this versatile blue cheese dressing on hand. It’s a cinch to make, lasts in the fridge for a week and will make the man in your life crumble and swoon. Especially if you serve it with steak.
I’ve heard this dressing is really good drizzled over an open-faced turkey, spinach [...]
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We had a crummy Valentine’s weekend. Littlest Middlest has been sick and she spent her sixth birthday/Valentine’s Day curled up in bed watching Brady Bunch reruns. So we are celebrating a few days late. Because when you are six and its your birthday you MUST have cake. And when you are Husband and its Valentine’s [...]
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Sometimes just for fun and for no good reason, I’ll send Husband an email with a photo like this attached. I’ll tell him I’ve got pounds and pounds of beef short ribs browned and by dinner he’ll be feasting on these tender, juicy morsels.
Sometimes I continue on in the email about how I wish [...]
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I have a Valentine baby. And in two short days she will be six. I can’t talk about it…
In the mother of all moves, I somehow lost misplaced my heart shaped baking pan. And because a heart shaped cake for a Valentine’s Day Birthday is non-negotiable, I had to purchase a replacement lickity split. I [...]
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So my friends over at Marx Foods are having a give-away. And by friends I mean people I would seriously like to eat dinner with every.single.night. I don’t know them personally and I have no association with Marx Foods other than if I win the lottery I’m spending it all at one time in [...]
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You can’t begin to imagine the sweet frenzy I enjoyed last night. I was invited by my friend Lulu to a private cooking demonstration hosted by chef extraordinaire Katie Chafizadeh and Texas Culinary Academy Chef Evan Morgan. For hours we oohed, ahhed, tasted and learned while Evan and Katie delighted us with their teachings. In [...]
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What you see is Day #6 of my Amish Friendship Bread starter. My friend Kristacular saved the day by watching the non-sick kiddos last Saturday and she surprised me with the bread starter. It’s been ages since I’ve had friendship bread and I am anxiously awaiting Saturday so I can bake and share.
The concept behind [...]
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