petey
Member Since:
Jan. 2007
Cooking Level:
Expert
Cooking Interests:
Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Southern, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies:
Knitting, Gardening, Hunting, Photography, Reading Books
Nov. 8, 2009 11:56 am
Updated: Nov. 11, 2009 4:37 pm
Living in our old house in S California, the weather usually was fairly temperate in the early fall, so we often slept with the doors to the back yard open. Cider, (our red-headed stepchild, a Golden Retriever) was still a large puppy that particular year. He slept on the bed with us, and…
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Food critic
Babysitter
His "spa"
Dinner guests
Cider, the Alvord Alligator
Kids are raised, we are hands on a 250,000 acre working cattle ranch 110 miles from town, so we raise a lot of our own food, vegetables, fruits, milk,eggs and meat. Love riding everyday and working cattle, but still spend a lot of time in the kitchen, and the garden.
My favorite things to cook
Breads, coffeecakes, all forms of chicken, shish ke bobs...and soups, I love homemade soup and bread!
My favorite family cooking traditions
Homemade from scratch...anything! All traditions are sort of gone by the wayside, as we live so far from family now
My cooking triumphs
Most things from this site, this has been the best thing the internet has had to offer!
My cooking tragedies
A layered Jello dessert...the middle layer never set, so it did the 'ooze-wiggle'...and...well..I liquified a couple of chickens on 2 different occasions, turning them into a black gel. Moral of that story is, don't start cooking then go clean barns!...and there was the time that my kids were helping me make Thanksgiving dinner and SOMEbody (who resembled my youngest son) forgot to put the sugar in the pie!!!
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