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CookinCat
 
Home Town: Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Living In: Rockville, Maryland, USA
Member Since: Feb. 2007
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Grilling & BBQ, Stir Frying, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Mediterranean
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Knitting, Hiking/Camping, Fishing, Photography, Reading Books, Music, Painting/Drawing, Wine Tasting
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Me!
About this Cook
I have always loved cooking, since I was a little one; probably because both my parents are good cooks. I love trying new things but I also have a few comfort foods I like to rotate every couple of weeks (like my pizza and mac&cheese).
My favorite things to cook
I love trying new things in the kitchen! I recently got into making (and eating!) Indian food which has been a blast. Soups, pasta sauces, and comfort foods like pizza and mac&cheese also top my favorites list. Recently I discovered a recipe for Beer Bread on this site that is SUPER EASY but out of this world!!
My favorite family cooking traditions
Ever since I was a wee one too little to remember, my family has implemented "Pizza Fridays". My Dad would show us how to make the pizza dough from scratch. My brother, sister, and I would forever be fighting over who got to mix the dough and punch it down after it had risen :)
My cooking triumphs
My mac&cheese is A.MAY.ZING! My homemade pizza, too, is the best ever (besides from my brother's homemade pizza!).
My cooking tragedies
Haha...when I was real young, perhaps 7 or 8, a friend of mine and I decided to make cookies for our two families. We thought we had everything right; experienced chefs as we were, we even could use the oven by ourselves! As soon as we took the first sheet of cookies out of the oven though, we knew something was wrong! The cookies were a burnt, flat mess! In all our excitement, we had forgotten to add the flour!
Recipe Reviews 7 reviews
Red Chard and Caramelized Onions
Like a few people mentioned below, I left out the olives and capers, because I did not have them on hand. I made sure to add enough kosher salt to season the dish though. Even without the olives and capers this was a DELICIOUS way to serve swiss chard. The tiny bit of brown sugar goes a long way, and is the perfect amount to season the onions and chard. I went the extra mile and added sausage bits and halved cherry tomatoes to the dish, then served it over bow-tie pasta. YUM!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Aug. 7, 2008
Baked French Fries I
There were awesome, and oh so easy and quick. I substituted the onion powder for parm cheese (as per another slightly different baked french fry recipe on this site). The spices and the parm were perfect together, and the potatoes came out to a perfect consistency. An easy snack or side dish-five stars!

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Feb. 21, 2008
Tiramisu Layer Cake
Fantastic! I used Kahlua liqueur for the coffee flavored liqueur. Like many of the previous reviewers, I doubled the Kahlua everywhere in called for, except in the frosting I used 3T. I made two coffee-flavored layers for the cake, and used about 1/4 cup of the instant coffee for a more intense flavor/color contrast. The chocolate shavings were much easier to make than I thought, and looked so pretty on top of the cake I didn't even have to use the cocoa power for more garnish. I used toothpicks to make the holes when saturating the cake with the coffee/Kahlua mixture-the toothpicks worked out just fine. It took a lot longer to assemble than I anticipated though because the layers took long to cool. Overall a easy (if time consuming) recipe! Two people asked me for the recipe when I served it!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Feb. 21, 2008
 
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