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I_love_my_dog_Teddie.
 
Home Town: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Living In: Brookfield, Illinois, USA
Member Since: Dec. 2007
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Healthy, Vegetarian
Hobbies: Gardening, Hiking/Camping, Biking, Walking, Reading Books
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About this Cook
I'm a vegetarian that loves to read recipes and cook. I've been using this site for years now and it has helped me so much, both the good and avoiding the bad through reader's reviews. Given that veg food is super expensive, I try to make most of it at home when I can, to be more healthy and more tasty and less expensive.
My favorite things to cook
Soup in the Winter. Smoothies in the Summer. My favorite lately has been a fried egg taco with beans, spanish rice, and hot sauce. Salads.
My favorite family cooking traditions
My heritage is Polish so when I was younger, lots of Pierogis and Barscht.
My cooking triumphs
Lasagna, soup, meat eaters think I cook great. When I cook meat, I don't taset what I cook because I'm vegetarian. Last time I made beef stroganoff for the Honey, to see what he was raving about, I made a vegetarian beef stroganoff along side his with soy crumbles substitue. WOW was it delicious! I had it for dinner, breakfast, and lunch! Well, I guess anything with noodles, cream, butter, and sour cream has to taste good! Haven't made it since because it's too fattening for me. Anyway, I cook meat for the Honey because if I don't he will go out and eat beef sandwiches and fries everyday and spend too much money for food that he already bought but is not interested in cooking it or doesn't know how. Otherwise I would never cook meat because it's against what I believe in.
My cooking tragedies
I burnt 3 veggie burgers in a row in the past 3 days in the broiler. You would think I would learn the first time. I ate them anyway. Another tragedy: When I was little, I was making cheesecake for my brother's birthday but instead of putting in sugar, I put in salt (from a nonmarked container). The mistake was caught right away though, and the mix was dumped.
Recipe Reviews 4 reviews
The Best Vegetarian Chili in the World
I took other suggestions and only added 1 bag of veggie crumbles (because they are sooo expensive). Cut the salt in half too. I added more heat by added some chipotles in adobe sauce. This is delicious and I've had it 4 times since I've made this 3 days ago. Such a lovely recipe....soooooo yummy!

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Reviewed On: Dec. 22, 2009
Garden Fresh Tomato Soup
I made 4 double batches already this summer with my bounty of garden fresh tomatoes. Cored tomatoes and stuck everything in the vita mix. Froze most so I can enjoy this in the Fall and Winter. I substituted vegetarian bouillion. I used garlic cloves instead of actual cloves. (I smelled the cloves in the store and I didn't like them.) I learned after my first batch to not to double the salt, keep it at 1 tsp when doubling. I also wisk some sour cream in before eating for added creaminess and fat which make it taste really good.

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Reviewed On: Sep. 14, 2009
Split Pea Soup
I'm giving this a 5 stars based on other's reviews and additions. I made this for my meat eating boyfriend and he said it was the best yet. I ommitted the potatoe and celery, used chicken stock, pinch of marjoram and thyme, used only two carrots diced and one onion. I started out with cooking the chicken stock and ham bone and then when all the items were added to the pot, I then started the timer for 1 1/2 hours. I added the carrots after the 1 1/2 hours and then cooked for 40 minutes more. During the 40 minutes I removed the bones and chopped up the itty bitty pieces of ham. Make sure to remove the grissle. This took me a long time but from my boyfriend's reaction, well worth it. I am a vegetarian so I don't know what the soup tastes like (I never had it in the past, if I did, it wasn't memorable.) I gave some to my neighbors, too, and they loved it. So if I can cook it, anyone can. I rather have him have home made food then going McDonald's.

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Reviewed On: Sep. 29, 2008
 
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