The Turquoise Table

Kristin Schell

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Quinoa: the ultimate super food

Quinoa.  Say what, you ask?  KEEN-wah.  If you haven’t tried it yet it is my challenge to you this week to make quinoa.  I dare you not to fall in love. This nutty, super seed originated in South America and was so important to the Incan culture they referred to it as ‘the mother of all grains”.  Quinoa is in…
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Kids’ Cook: French Toast

What’s not to love about breakfast for dinner?!?!  It’s a winner at The Schell Cafe for sure.  And French toast is at the top of the littles’ favorite breakfasts, er dinners. Our cooking frenzy began tonight with the kids wondering if French toast was from France?  Yes.  And no.  In France, French toast is called pain perdu which literally means…
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Chili Ike

We’re hunkerin’ down, so to speak.  All week long we’ve been gearing up for Ike.  Our first clue Ike meant business came when the University of Texas Athletics Department rescheduled the football game.  People, you don’t mess with UT football. Only Mother Nature herself could get away with calling that audible. Then the school district issued early release on Friday…
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Kids Cook Night

The culinary highlight of the week for the littles occurs every Wednesday night at The Schell Cafe.  Wednesday’s are Kids Cook nights.  Early in the week, the older kids plan the menu, make sure we have all the ingredients and, if not, make a grocery list.  Then each Wednesday afternoon the whole clan gathers in the cafe to make whatever…
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Alice Waters’ Coleslaw

I have a wonderful reoccurring dream where I live at Chez Panisse.  Sometimes in my dream I’m Fanny, Alice’s daughter who literally grew up at her mother’s famous restaurant in Berkeley.  Sometimes I’m one of the fortunate chefs under Alice’s tutelage.  But the dreamiest of all dreams is when I’m simply a guest at a cozy table downstairs with a…
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Shrimp with Chili-Lime Vinaigrette

It’s a perfect Saturday. The littles are still relishing their Friday night sleep-overs, we have a rare break in our our typical routine of over-abundantly-scheduled-saturday-activities and Husband is happy the Horns play tonight. Football season is its own religion at The Schell Cafe. Our beloved Texas Longhorns are away tonight which gives us a rare September Saturday night at home….
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