Potato Gnocchi with Minty Pea Sauce

Potato Gnocchi with Pea Mint Sauce

Chez Us has been invited to play along with the fine folks at Kitchen PLAY and Knuckle Salad during Munch Madness.  This fun event is being sponsored by United States Potato Board.  To familiarize you with Munch Madness, it is a bracketed playoff where eight food bloggers share their recipes to compete for the title [...]

Last Minute Holiday Gifts for the Man in your Life

Art of Shaving

There will be any talk of food today;  instead, I am going to share a product, I found for the man (men) in our lives.  Particularly, for the man in your life who has everything.  I am always stumped as to what to give Lenny.  We are at the point in our lives if there [...]

Odwalla Smoothies a Healthy Kid Snack

I was delighted to be asked by BlogHer to share this episode of Weelicious Lunch Crunch sponsored by Odwalla Fruit Smoothies For Kids with my readers. Enjoy!

Kitchen PLAY | Dirty Martini

Aunt Nellie's Pickled Beet Martini

It is officially summer, which means it is time to start some serious entertaining.  Hot, balmy nights are meant to be sitting around, enjoying ones company, and eating great food. Lucky for all of us, Kitchen PLAY invited us to join them and Aunt Nellie’s for a Progressive Dinner Party.    If, you are not [...]

Olive and Goat Cheese Turnovers

Olive Turnovers

Before I share this amazing recipe with you, I wanted to tell you about a fun event we are participating in this month;  Kitchen PLAY.  don’t know about you, but I love playing in the kitchen and get really excited when offered the opportunity to try new gadgets and ingredients.  Don’t we all love to [...]

Three Milk Cake

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WOW!  Time flies when you are cooking, and stuffing your face.  It is hard to believe that it has been 4 years, yes 4 years, and 697 posts since Chez Us was born.  It is fun to look back, and see the baby steps we took, to get where we are now.  We laugh, and [...]

Hearty Corn Chowder with Chipotle Whipped Cream

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A couple of weeks ago, okay, a month ago, I received an email from Westminster Crackers.  They liked our site.  They wanted to share their product with us.  Now, I have always wondered where those little packets of salty crackers came from.  You know the ones that randomly show up on your table, when you [...]

Our gift to you | Chez Us 2009 Favorites

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And the winner is …………….  the lovely Katie of Salt & Chocolate!  Congrats Katie. Tis the season to be jolly fa la la la la la la.  This is the season for sharing and we want to share with you a few of our favorite things from 2009.  Last year we gave a subscription to [...]