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The CEE Recipe Book

I want to make a book of recipes donated by our members, readers and friends. Yep a real book! So I am asking all of you to email me your:

-recipe, name, email, source of recipe (a book, family, etc)

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Hair Lightener Recipe

Yes, you read it right! This is NOT a food recipe. But a recipe with kitchen ingredients for your hair. Below you will find a few ideas on how to naturally lighten your hair.

My natural color is medium ash blond. Now I have never dyed my hair drastically. In the summer my hair gets a [...]

Berry Goodness

The other day I shared with you a Berry Explosion Cobbler recipe sent to me by the folks at the Biggest Loser Resort at Fitness Ridge and Driscoll’s Berries. They also sent a long a really informative fact sheet on each berry. So here is the info if interested.

The pigments that give berries their red, [...]

Sprintcuts: Speed-Peel A Potato

Sprintcuts: Quick-Peel An Egg

Homemade Ricotta and Mascarpone

These two recipes were the ‘bonus’ recipes of this month’s Baker’s Challenge over at The Daring Kitchen…..the challenging being cannoli if you read my posts a bit below. Now I did not make these bonus recipes but totally thought they are worth sharing. I also do plan on making each soon. I think the idea [...]

Amateur Food Photography

I had lunch yesterday with about 10 local food blogers yesterday (future post to come) and one topic that came up was taking pictures of our food and the frustration that comes from it.

Now we do not have food stylist folowing us in tow with a food photographer. We’ve got to do the best we [...]

The Holy Trinity

As I was writing my guest blog for another site I was traveling down memory lane of foods I have eaten on my travels. While reviewing my tasty adventures in New Orleans I came across the holy trinity.

No, no, I am not getting religious on you. I am talking about the Louisiana holy trinity in [...]

How to Make Pasta Dough

Back to Italian basics today. Nothing is better then freshly made pasta and its well worth the effort.  I remember the last time I made it we had a girl’s dinner and made it all together. We used a broom handle (clean) across her counters to dry the pasta. her cat had the best time [...]

Roux what, roux who, roux you!

As I was writing my guest blog for another site (will be published Aug 28th) I was traveling down memory lane of foods I have eaten on my travels. While reviewing my tasty adventures in New Orleans I came across a text on Roux. No I am not talking about some hot french red head [...]

Kitchen and dining room staff

Here is a fun article I found on Wikipedia…if you want to brush up on your restaurant staff trivia:

Larger restaurants and hotels in France employ extensive staff and are commonly referred to as either the kitchen brigade for the kitchen staff or dining room brigade system for the dining room staff. This system was created [...]

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