Mushroom Massacre

It was another cookbook recipe testing night at our house so the usual Oregon group–momchef, CGO (chief GOpher) Jamie and CFP (chief food photographer) Shelby-convened to finalize Ravioli with Mushroom-Shallot Sauce.  Makes my mouth water just looking at the pictures because the flavor is one that would send a zagat rating soaring.
However, as often happens with our threesome [...]

Swiss Christmas

Christmas at our house always means going back to the best parts of Grandpa Scheller’s Swiss roots–gooey cheese fondue, comforting chocolate drinks and thin lemon bratzeli cookies.  We also  tolerate the family yodeling and cow bells ringing on our doors.  Through the years we’ve experimented with lots of cheese fondue recipes and finally perfected it to our [...]

Molasses-Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiches

Fall brings a craving for what I like to call “cozy spices” (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves) and, of course, all things pumpkin.  We’ve perfected a decades old family recipe for Molasses Cookies that’s spicy, super chewy and has no butter.  That makes it virtually a health food according to our Nana.   We also love pumpkin ice [...]

Blue Cheese and Rosemary Grougeres

So I know this recipe doesn’t look the best, but it was one of my finalist recipes for the Portland Women’s Show.  We ended up (thankfully) making crab cakes, micro mac and chocolate Kaluha cheesecake. I liked these and Mom found them bland or something (I stopped listening when after “we are not making these [...]

Chocolate Kaluha Cheesecake

We make this recipe all the time and receive rave reviews.  Most recently, we gave out samples and recipe cards at The Portland Women’s Show and people wanted to know where they could buy it.  For those of you who didn’t get a recipe card at the show, here’s the recipe – enjoy!!

Chocolate [...]

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