I know you are probably wondering, 'why make homemade butter?' Really the question should be, 'why not?' Making homemade butter is simple and everyone should try it at least once. There isn't really a recipe, but we've come a long way from an old wooden butter churn! These photos will show you the process of how to turn one cup of heavy cream into delightfully delicious butter. To make butter you will need: 1 cup organic ...
The Schell Cafe Cookbook {kristinschell.com}
Two BIG announcements for you today, friends! I have a gift for you—The Schell Cafe Cookbook. Next week, you'll have the opportunity to get my first e-book FREE. I sent the final copy off last week, and I might even have a sneak peek of the book cover for you by the end of this week. The Schell Cafe Cookbook will be available in two formats: as a pdf document you can print, and as a traditional e-book for purchase on ...
Spiced Cherry Compote
If summer has a flavor it's cherry. I spend my fair share of time pitting cherries in the summer - an invitation to slow down. Spiced Cherry Compote may be one of my favorite experiments of the summer. A dollop of this compote on a generous serving of Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla ice cream gives new meaning to happiness with a cherry on top. Simple Cherry Compote 1 lbs cherries, pitted 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup red wine 1 ...
Easy Oriental Salad {and dancing at camp}
Thirty days. We dropped her off the first day of June. My heart aches for her every day, but seeing her fishing, climbing and dancing the days away makes it all bearable. She'll be performing a dance for us tonight on the banks of the Guadalupe River. I've seen glimpses of the performance since I stalk the photographs posted on the camp website hourly daily. She writes they've practiced hard on the dance which is to her favorite song ...
Home Style Summer Fried Okra
I teared up when I made the room reservations - just a piss-ant hotel in a podunk town. My blood's in the Panhandle soil but my feet haven't touched the ground in this place since we buried Poppy. It'll be a homecoming of sorts. The first time back in twenty years. The drive from the heart of Texas to Colorado leaves you somewhere around Dumas about 9 hours in. All that driving and still in Texas. You can push a little further, say ...
Sleep Over Pancakes
Full throttle into summer, we're beginning to notice the longer days, lingering mornings and wafts of Coppertone mingled with honeysuckle and Husband's roses in full bloom gently flanking the backyard watering hole. Unstructured days soothe our souls as our shoulders fall from our ears releasing the regiment of routine. A welcomed season, indeed. We bolted for summer as soon as the last award was handed, barely waiting for the bell, ...
Shrove Tuesday Pancakes
Mardi Gras. Fat Tuesday. Carnival. Shrove Tuesday. Pancake Day. All over the world - in various customs and traditions, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday has come to mean celebration. A time of great revelry in order to 'get it out of one's system' in preparation for the long, solemn season of Lent. In America, we generally associate this day with Mardi Gras and our friends in the Bayou State where Louisianans laissez les bons temps ...
Oeufs Cocotte (Baked Eggs)
Aside from raising four Littles, the most humbling, if not down right humiliating, thing I've done in a very long time is participate in French Conversation class at the Alliance Francaise. I'm one month in to these weekly gatherings and let's just say things are going painfully slow. The good news is I understand everything being said in the class - religion, politics, casual banter. I'm quite impressed with my ability to hang with the ...
Dos Chelas (y Salsa con Crema)
This is the first post in the new series Cooking con Chelita. If you missed the announcement, be sure to read about the exciting things happening at The Schell Cafe. I'm grateful you are at the table! Forty-five years ago, two young love birds flew the coup and headed to South America to serve in the Peace Corps. Happily married in Caracas, Venezuela the husband and wife learned they were in the family way and decided to make plans to ...
Announcing…
Welcome 2012! We are still in holiday-celebrate-rest-do-less-and-enjoy mode. Husband and I celebrated 14 years of marriage on New Year's Eve, the Littles - still riding the Christmas high - have a couple days before heading back to school, and we are treasuring the time. I'm so eager to share plans for 2012 with you, I couldn't wait until next week. How 'bout a sneak peek into 2012 at The Schell Cafe? I have three announcements to ...