Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Or, as I like to think if it, we’ve been following our New Year’s Resolutions for six weeks now, so let’s have come chocolate to celebrate. I made cupcakes for my colleagues in the Iowa City newsroom today. Since I spend most of my time in Cedar Rapids, they get the [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – Jennifer Schulte’s Christmas cookie exchange is an annual holiday tradition. But it didn’t start that way. “I hosted my first cookie exchange in 2008,” Schulte says. “My husband and I had a new house, and around Christmas time, I said I want to have my friends over and show off the [...]
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I love pumpkin pie. My husband loves pumpkin pie, too. We discovered our mutual love for it above all other pies – no, above all other desserts – during our third date. We still wonder why we went with a traditional wedding cake instead of pumpkin pie at our wedding reception. Obviously I made pumpkin [...]
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Setting: My kitchen. Time: Not even 30 seconds ago. Me: I’ve got apple crisp! Scott: You saved the best for last? Yes, we are nearing the end of The 2012 Apple Challenge. YAY! Apple crisp is my husband’s favorite dessert (after pumpkin pie), so it seemed fitting to make it for him towards the end [...]
continue »My dining room looks like the backroom of an old bookstore. So my husband tells me. During the past several weeks, the cookbooks donated by generous Eastern Iowans have been transferred from the office near my desk at The Gazette to the dining room in my house. I have been appraising and pricing nearly 10 [...]
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