Kristin Schell
Family Supper Matters Does your cooking ever go in spurts? Mine does. Yesterday, our seventeen-year-old son reminded me that I haven’t been cooking much lately. I could have spewed off all kinds of excuses for how busy we’ve been, but I chose to see the silver-lining: OUR TEENAGE SON REQUESTED MY COOKING! More importantly, he said he missed our family…
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Pasta is the ultimate crowd pleasing dish. What’s not to love about gooey, bubbling cheese, juicy tomato sauce, and perfectly cooked pasta? When you need a simple recipe to feed a crowd or take to a potluck, try our family’s favorite baked ziti casserole. Life’s crazy. My particular brand of cray cray these days? Hungry TEENAGERS. I’m always looking for meals…
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Happy New Year! Here we are — the first Monday of the new year. With all the fa-la-la-la-la behind us, January can feel like a bit of a let down. Like the party’s over, but you still have to get dinner on the table. While everyone’s talking about goals, resolutions, Fitbits and Bullet Journals, I still haven’t de-decked the halls….
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Announcing the cookie of the year. And the winner is . . . ginger doodles! We make a lot of cookies in our house. A lot. Our three daughters love to bake which means there’s always some kind of recipe testing and tasting going on in the kitchen. Ginger doodles have been a favorite all fall. We made these tasty…
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Growing up bread fell into four categories: store bought white loaves school cafeteria yeast rolls monkey bread popover rolls I’m sure there were exceptions, but these were the four essential bread groups of my youth. Wonder Bread sandwiches still steal my heart. There’s something nostalgic about a white bread, tomato, and mayo sandwich. When I’m feeling sick or blue, peanut…
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We love tomato soup. It’s our go-to comfort soup in sickness and in health. When I found the recipe for Nordstrom’s famous tomato basil soup it became an instant favorite in our house. Years ago, when the Littles first acquired a taste for tomato soup, we taught them to pick up their bowl and tilt it, just so, to get…
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