Husband starts the day with a cappuccino. He’s a simple man, although many would argue (his loving wife included) this is not a simple coffee. I prefer a latte myself. I use a low-fat vanilla soy instead of milk and it makes for a delicious jump start for my day. I think I’ll need more than one today. We are…
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Happy Halloween!
Littlest is trick or treating this year which is mind boggling. I’m sure she’ll score her weight in candy which begs the question what do you do with all your Halloween candy? I have friends who freeze it and make Christmas cookies and others who have delicious left-over candy pie recipes. Me? I cherry pick the good stuff and let the…
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Manolo Blahnik? Not.
Carrie Bradshaw laugh your soles off! These are my cooking shoes. I realized I was really in to this whole cooking thing when I began to think of shoes as kitchen accessories. Help? I love my Dansko clogs. I first started wearing them at the insistence of my podiatrist. A few years back I ran a marathon. Er, walked a…
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The Barefoot Contessa
It’s no secret that I adore Ina Garten. Sit a spell at the cafe and you’ll find I have made many of her recipes over the years and even road tripped to Dallas to meet The Contessa in person. You can imagine my excitement over the fact that in 7 short days THIS comes out!!! I’m thrilled Ina has gone…
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Home Sweet Home
Four movers, three days, 2 million boxes and a couple bottles of red wine later and we are home. Never mind that we still don’t know up from down, we are home. And it feels so good. Anybody wanna guess the first thing I made on my new cooktop?
The Schell Cafe: Before & After
This week we will be moving home! If you’ve been around a while, you know my life has been under construction. We tore our house down to the studs at the beginning of the year and have been putting her back together for the last nine months. A year ago, the real life Schell Cafe looked something like this: About…
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