: About Me

Charlotte's articles have appeared in the Illinois State Journal Register, Evansville Courier Press, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Connections magazine, Lebrary.com and others. She is a former editor of a national credit management newsletter and numerous smaller niche productions. Currently, she freelances  and does grant writing for Hoofbeats with Heart in Gilbert, AZ.

She wrote "Sammies in the Kitchen" and is currently editing and collaborating on a series of cookbooks soon to be released. She has taught cooking classes at the Self Awareness Center in Evansville, IN and Temple B'Nai Torah of St. Peters, MO.

She has a BA in the Behavioral Sciences with certification in Canine Behavior and has written "Good Dogs Bite, Too."  She has maintained her Premier Writer  and Marketplace Approved Writer status for Helium since...well, quite a while now.

Charlotte loves being Channel Steward for the Food and Cuisine channel. Food is after all, the universal positive reinforcement.

As luck has it, she is mom to a wonderful daughter and wife to her best friend, Jim. Her writing encompasses a wide variety of interests, like life. She is a member of the Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Association and St. Louis Independent Publishers Association.

When not writing, Charlotte loves to work with dogs, cook, pair good wines, golf and finally, sit on the deck with Jim and watch the horses in the field, while the dogs nap and the cats walk the railing. After all, life is a great way to pass the time away.

My passion is ...

Writing, training the dogs and cooking

I know too much about ...

Don't be silly...there is never too much knowledge!

My parents always told me ...

"You're too little for that!" Took years to grow out of that one.

My childhood ambition ...

Was to be a horse trainer, ride in a circus and have a gourmet restaurant..

My favorite memory ...

The pecan pralines that Dad used to bring home.

Why I write ...

I'm driven to write. I don't question it. I don't want it to go away.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

A Big Little Life by Dean Koontz

My first job ...

Cleaning out the stables. Ah, the miracle of work. Note sarcasm.

My best moment ...

Holding our daughter for the first time.

My inspiration ...

The life of Ghandi and looking into a dog's face

Food & Drink > Cooking (Other) How to make flavorful soup stock

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The great chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) once said, “Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.” A good soup stock is full of flavor and ripe with promise. Whether haute cuisine, or provencal, stocks provides the base for foods in nearly every part of the world. The savvy cook takes advantage of garden surplus, grocery sales and friendly butchers to obtain the freshest, yet inexpensive ingredients for homemade soup stock. Making your own soup stock is economical and allows the cook to control the ingredients, quality and taste. Soup stock is ma...

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