The Story of My Kitchen
I have loved being in the kitchen since I was tiny. My favorite toy growing up was my play kitchen. I loved cooking things. When I was little there were ...
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Delicious Gingerbread from Ruth Reichl
While on vacation this summer I picked up a fun book called Delicious! by Ruth Reichl, the former editor of Gourmet magazine. The story is coming of age ...
Styling My Cookbook Collection
Collections are meaningful because they tell the world a little bit about who you are. The best collections are the ones that have grown over time. Where each p...
Banana Bread
There is something about the smell of banana bread coming out of the oven. It is the one thing I make that has everyone (my picky eaters included) running to th...
Best Ever Chocolate Cupcakes
One of my favorite things to do is bake and I love making cakes. I like the freedom and creativity that baking gives you. You can take simple ingredients and ma...
The Chemistry of Art
Image from House Beautiful Designer Jeffery Bilhuber I was working on a project for our house and looking at modern art prints, when I began to think about how ...
A New Door Opens
Alexander Graham Bell once said, “When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one ...
There is No Place Like Home
Home is not just a residence or a location. I have come to learn that it’s more of a feeling. I certainly never expected that I would leave the city I grew...
Bienvenue to Maison McCauley
Hello and thank you for visiting Maison McCauley! I started this blog after our family made a cross country move to Chicago. I left my career as an attorney aft...