I know, I know, this cookbook is all I seem to be talking about. I can’t help it – it is so exciting! This has to one of the best expressions of delayed gratification that I have experienced. Writing the book was HARD and the work has been done for months now. Now that the…
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Observations on life and what not from a writer and restauranteur in Lawrence, Kansas. www.molly-krause.com
Relive a Krause Dining Memory
I’ll admit that since we have closed Krause Dining (our home-based restaurant) there hasn’t been much that I have missed about it – mostly the people: those I worked with and the customers whom I have grown close to. So I was a bit surprised at the feelings I experienced when looking at our cookbook…
Street Food
The family and I are in New York City, doing a lot of cooking – three meals a day for a group of about twenty. Like Kansas, it’s hot here but with the energy and hustle of the city, a different kind of hot (not to mention the sauna-like conditions underground waiting for the subway)….
Pre-Order our COOKBOOK!
When I saw that our cookbook was available for pre-order online I found myself a little teary – you know, those happy kind of tears when you are taken surprise by something that seems too good to be true. I felt like Geppetto when Pinocchio took his first breath as I pointed to the screen…
The Burger Stand at the Casbah is OPEN!
We’ve survived our opening night at The Burger Stand at the Casbah! It’s a fun, casual joint with awesome burgers and now, hot dogs too. I love the Chicago Dog… Have a great holiday weekend!
How ‘Top Chef’ Hurts the Home Cook
Recently I was on an airplane with access to television shows, and so for two hours I sat and watched. I watch TV but my programming usually centers around HBO series and Law & Order. And although I’ve watched Top Chef before, I am not a regular viewer. Watching them back-to-back for a couple of…
My vanilla
Taking the lid off of my vanilla extract bottle is a simple but wonderful pleasure for me – oh, the aroma! When we were writing our cookbook last fall I started a batch of my own vanilla extract and have been so pleased with the results. And while the Krauses have not been doing much…
Good swing
I’m being pushed out of my comfort zone and well, it’s uncomfortable. I exist happily walking around Esquina with a water pitcher, conceiving a new dessert combination, or behind a cash register talking with customers. But, hunched over a calculator and computer…that’s a different story entirely. I can actually feel my blood pressure elevate like…
It’s on the Board
Over the past few months since our restaurant Esquina opened, I have experienced a new and simple daily pleasure – I read the chalkboards we have in the bathrooms. If you haven’t visited the restrooms at Esquina, both the men’s & women’s restrooms have a giant chalkboard and chalk. I don’t know what I was…
It’s the People
I had so much fun at the cooking class I taught Thursday night at The Bay Leaf. I often feel reluctant to commit to teaching a class – the prep work involved, the nervousness of how it will come off, groping with the different kind of work than I am used to doing. But, now…
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