Cooking with Sheila

Juicing Up The New Year

If your New Year's Resolution is to eat healthier and you've got a juicer, you've come to the right place.

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without." ~Douglas Coupland My in-laws gave my husband and I a juicer over the holidays. This was after I saw it unopened on a shelf in their basement and asked a few times if they were ever going to use it. Subtlety may not be my strong suit but who cares? I got a juicer! My boy, E, was anxious to give it a try so we threw some pineapple and baby carrots we had in the fridge together and hoped for the best. End result? Delicious! After doing some research I found out that carrots are the liason between fruits and vegetables with regard to juicing. The basic rule of thumb is that you juice fruit with fruit and vegetables with vegetables. You …

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Sheila Duggan Chabot

11:05 am on Saturday, January 14, 2012

Thank you Audra! I am new to juicing but have definitely fallen in love with it!   more ›

Ring in the New Year With Rosemont Street Stuffed Mushrooms

These delicious seafood stuffed mushrooms are great for any celebration.

Editor's Note: "Cooking With Sheila" is a new weekly column that will be featured on Lexington Patch each Wednesday. "If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools." ~Katherine Mansfield One of my best girls, Miss T, came for a visit the other day and offered to make stuffed mushrooms. I was thrilled, since that is one of my favorite appetizers (that I very seldom make since my boys hate 'em.) As she unloaded the arsenal of supplies from her Market Basket bag I took pause. Crabmeat, shrimp, celery...these are not the makings for typical stuffed 'shrooms. As she sauteed, stuffed and baked she told me the story of how this great recipe came to be. It was handed down through generations of women in…

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New Culinary Course Offerings from Kids Cooking Green

Lexington-based Kids Cooking Green is inviting local youth to join them in the kitchen for some fun, great food and a lively discussion in its new classes for kids in grades 5 through 12.

  The following information was provided by the folks at Kids Cooking Green. Cookie Making/ Fancy Cookie Decorating $38 Tuesday, Jan. 17 3:30-5:30  p.m. The Cookie Making/Fancy Cookie Decorating class is open to students in grades 5-8. We will begin this class preparing a sugar cookie dough, explaining the techniques of creaming the butter, and rolling out the dough. We will then bake and decorate our cookies to look like the professionals do! With the guidance of Professional cookie making Ravneet Sidhu, owner of Bakers Bloom, you will learn how to use a pastry bag, and how to decorate your edible creations to look like a professional baker created them! Each student will leave class with a box of cookies to be enjoyed at home. This class…

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Local Chapter of Hadassah to Host Brass Sisters

On Wednesday evening, award-winning cookbook authors Marilynn and Sheila Brass, will be swapping stories and recipes at a private residence in Lexington.

The following is a press release from the Arlington-Lexington Chapter of Hadassah. The Arlington-Lexington Chapter of Hadassah announces its first meeting:"An Evening with the Brass Sisters: Memories of Food and Family." Award-winning cookbook authors, Marilynn and Sheila Brass, will be at a private residence in Lexington at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14, to share stories about their amzing paths.  The Hadassah chapter and the sisters invite attendees to bring one of their own family recipes to share, along with a short narration about why the recipe is special. RSVP to Arllexhadassahreplies@gmail.com. Address info available upon your rsvp.

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