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Cassondra Ragan
 
Home Town: Crossville, Tennessee, USA
Living In: Kingston, Tennessee, USA
Member Since: Feb. 2007
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Southern, Healthy
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About this Cook
I'm a tennessee girl who has run out of supper ideas for her husband and has gotten bored with the same old things that I always cook
My favorite things to cook
Anything easy!
My favorite family cooking traditions
Puerto Rican chicken and rice
My cooking triumphs
Anytime my husband's eyes light up when he tastes what I've made
My cooking tragedies
laying a pyrex casserole straight from the oven onto a hot stove "eye." BOOM! glass and hash brown casserole on the ceiling
Recipe Reviews 5 reviews
Green Grape Salad
So, I don't like most nuts in recipes. But I usually add them if it is called for because most of my family likes nuts. This salad was wonderful even with the pecans! I tasted it before I added the brown sugar and it was really good. But after the brown sugar it was GREAT! Can't wait to impress the family at our Christmas dinner!

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Reviewed On: Dec. 16, 2008
Candy Cane Fudge
I tried this after reading all of the good reviews. I followed it exactly and I wasn't very impressed because I'm not real fond of white chocolate(just my personal preference I guess.) And the candy cane mixed in made it pretty hard. The second time I made it I split the condensed milk in half and in two separate pans I made half with 10 oz of white chocolate and the other half with 10 oz of milk chocolate chips (with 1/2 tsp of peppermint extract in each. I followed one of the reviewers suggestions of putting several "dots" of food coloring in and only mixing 2-3 times (just enough to swirl.) I then unevenly poured the white chocolate in a saran wrap lined casserole dish and then unevenly poured the chocolate over and around the white chocolate. I swirled a little and spread the fudge evenly. I sprinkled the crushed candy cane on top. It was so good!! The mixture of the milk chocolate and the fudge was perfect for my taste (the white fudge only was too much for me and I could taste the condensed milk a little) Though it kinda gets on my nerves when people review recipes only to have changed them completely, I had to post this. I will see what my friends think of it tomorrow.

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Reviewed On: Dec. 13, 2008
Baked Potato Soup
I love this soup, but can't make it very often because it is addicting. I add more bacon though because my hubby and I like the bacon chunks. And because the potatoes are baked first, it gives the potato chunks are silkier than boiled...if that makes sense. I've made this with part skim milk and part cream and it is still good, but it saves some calories.

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Reviewed On: Nov. 27, 2008
 
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