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 [...]

Shrimp, Scallops and Steak Montreal Style

Just got back from Montreal.  Forgive the long post, but we had two great meals in our day in Montreal. It took forever to get through customs.  While the system seemed fairly inefficient, the customs line was ripe for some excellent people watching.  Let’s just say it provided much entertainment for our 70 minutes in [...]

Kickin’ it up with a Hotluck

Had an awesome hotluck Saturday night.  About 25 of our friends came over and brought their favorite hot dishes.  We had everything from flaming fire coleslaw to spicy red beans and rice to Vatapa, a Brazilian seafood stew – someone even brought spicy bloody marys.  Overall it was a great time. Found out that one [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]