Ugly lipsticks, cute shoes and inspired recipes

For the past 6 months I’ve been on a mission to use up the 10 lipsticks I’ve purchased throughout (many) years.  Two things I’ve noticed… 1 – the 80′s and early 90′s were bad decades for lipsticks 2 – the uglier the color, the longer the lipstick seems to last. Ugh…..I blame my high school [...]

Happy Valentine/Presidents’ Day Cherry-Port Brownies

Mama Shoe Chef has no special Valentine, so that means a trip to the kitchen–in heels, of course.  Last month I saw  a recipe in an old magazine for brownies with port-soaked cherries  I made it for a meeting and threw the recipe away.  Later I was asked for the recipe, so today seemed a [...]

Why do I cook in heels?

So people ask me all the time if I really cook in heels.  If you’ve ever been in my kitchen, you can undoubtedly vouch that I really do cook in heels.  I also recently helped a friend move to a third floor apartment and wore heels (in hind sight it was pretty stupid though because [...]

Soles4Souls Shoe Drop

Holy moly!  We got so caught up in the cookbook craziness that we forgot to tell about our shoe drop in early August.  Hiking boots, running shoes, loafers & stillettos–Soles4Souls can either use them as is or give them new life and send them around the world.  We found a funky place in a strip mall that looked like an old [...]