Author Archives: TheshoeboxKitchen

Okay, don’t get too excited.  Although we would love to say that TheshoeboxKitchen is coming out of retirement, well, we’re not quite ready for that.  But, while chasing around our 3 and almost 1 year olds tonight, we did manage … Continue reading →

Hi stranger.  Okay, so maybe we’re the strangers here.  Two kids under 2 will do that to you.  Our apologies.  But somehow in the midst of the madness we just had to get this very important information out to the … Continue reading →

What do you do when the blackberries are almost out of season and you’ve rescued one last bunch from the farmer’s market . . . And in the same week your good friends give you some fresh figs plucked right … Continue reading →

I first have to say that this attempt at videography (our first) was inspired by our food blog heroes over at notwithoutsalt.  If you want to go see some extremely artistic foodies who really know what they’re doing (and post … Continue reading →

It’s summer.  That means at least two things: 1) Time to catch up on blog posts 2) Strawberry ice cream There is nothing quite like fresh summer strawberries.  But fresh summer strawberry ice cream?  To. Die. For. So, without further … Continue reading →

Ah, pumpkin.  We just can’t get enough. Add in some butterscotch, oatmeal, walnuts, and chocolate chips, and you end up with cookies that present you with the same dilemma: you just can’t get enough. What we really liked about this … Continue reading →

We just love the Fall, and – like so many food lovers – we tend to go pumpkin crazy.  I mean, obsessively so.  Last year when there was the purported “great pumpkin shortage of 2010,” we went to several grocery … Continue reading →