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ashley
 
Home Town: Chesapeake, Virginia, USA
Living In: Manteo, North Carolina, USA
Member Since: Jan. 2007
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Southern, Low Carb, Healthy, Vegetarian, Kids, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Sewing, Needlepoint, Gardening, Boating, Fishing, Hunting, Music, Genealogy, Painting/Drawing, Wine Tasting
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About this Cook
Lets see, Ill start off by saying that all of my cooking talent comes from my mom's great tastes in foods & growing up with her fabulous homemade cooking, & also comes from my Italian Grandpa 'POP'. He inspires me to get in touch with my italian background. His meatballs are to DIE for! Also my family makes Caputo wine & cheese, pecorino romano that we CANT get ENOUGH of!Growing up from a teen to an adult to a mommy I have learned many amazing ways to eat. My husband & I eat fish year round. He is a 1st mate out of Oregon Inlet and I used to be one too until the baby came along. He brings bags of tuna, mahimahi, wahoo, etc, home for us for dinner. That is, when its fishing season. We enjoy eating healthy & LOVE TO FISH! Our family has a history of boat building & offshore fishing. You can say my husbands 'Pop Pop' is a legend around here. We LOVE cooking & LOVE sharing new recipes. We hope you love our stuff, Tight Lines!!!
My favorite things to cook
Grilled, Broiled, Seared, Fried, Boiled, Sauteed, Raw, Marinated Tuna. Tuna Salads and most definately Sushi too!! Quiches Steaks Soups Homemade Mac and Cheese Wraps, Sandwiches, Cheeseburgers Manacotti, Speghetti, Pasta's, and Lasagna's Stuffed mushroom caps Crab and Salmon Dips Imitation Crab salads Salads Meats and cheeses, pickle trays Alcoholic Beverages, icluding family secret homemade egg nog Casseroles Corn Bread, Garlic Breads, Grandpas famous meat balls
My favorite family cooking traditions
Gramma and Pop's Speghetti and meatballs for Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner. Gramma's delicious cornbread pudding Gramma's delicious turkey stuffing!!! Dad's yukon gold potatoes and onions fresh from the garden with momma's DELICIOUS hashbrowns. The list goes on and on...
My cooking triumphs
My new famous Low carb low cal Quiche... not really famous but everybody loves it!!! My homemade mac and cheese made with jarlesburg swiss and pecorino romano cheese.
My cooking tragedies
There is only one real bad one that i can come up with right now... My mom should remember. We slaved over a hot stove for about an hour, haha, we were making home-made Chicken and dumplings... well we had a HUGE pot cooking away and dummy me went and turned up the heat and FRIED the bottom of the pot... leaving the rest of the soup tasting AND smelling like a fresh ASH TRAY! We tried to salvage it but it was no use... Needless to say my mom made me completely START OVER and fix the pot all over again! it was exhausting, but the results were DELICIOUS!!! thanks mom!
Recipe Reviews 2 reviews
Basil Vinaigrette Dressing
I grow my own basil and this is perfect for a quickie, I marinated my chicken breasts in it and grilled it, the honey gives it a wonderful carmelization type grilled flavor!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Apr. 2, 2008
Broccoli Corn Bread
This is one of those recipes you can TRUST to be a HIT! I am totally addicted!!! I made them in 12 count muffin pan and my husband and I wrestle over them. They are SO good and hit the spot when you are lookin for a snack that will satisfy all your cravings; sweet, bready, and veggie all in one! I make my own honey butter and it brings it all together! I praise this recipe! thankyou!!!

4 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 14, 2007
 
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