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DEANA
 
Living In: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Member Since: Jun. 2007
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Dessert
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Camping, Biking, Walking, Photography, Music, Painting/Drawing
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About this Cook
I am married to a great guy, Thomas, and we have a beautiful little girl. I am already getting her comfortable with the kitchen at the early age of one. :-] I feel like everyone should know how to cook. It's healthier, cheaper, and it gives a sense of satisfaction.
My favorite things to cook
I really like cooking all foods. My husband is rather picky, so I can't be but so adventurous. I am most famous for my cookies, but any type of baking is good.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Chocolate chip pancakes every Saturday and Sunday morning. Not to cook dinnner on Wednesday. We go out for mexican weekly.
My cooking triumphs
I make the best cookies. I pride myself on making new cookie recipes, but chocolate chip is still the most requested by my friends and family.
My cooking tragedies
I am always very eager to get my baked goods out of the oven. I'm upset with myself if a cookie, brownie, or cake is a little dry because I left it in the oven for a couple extra minutes. I blame this in the fact that my pumpkin pie never seems to set up correctly. Next time I promise myself to not take it out before its truly done.
Recipe Reviews 37 reviews
Dad's Pan-Fried Green Beans
Better than delicious! I am always hesitant to try new recipes because my husband is rather picky. He LOVED them, as did I. He said he felt he should be eating at a Japanese steakhouse. The kids didn't love them as we did, and didn't finish there's...but my husband ate the remnants.

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Reviewed On: Oct. 27, 2009
Mile-High Apple Pie
The taste was awesome, and I loved how the juices didn't flow all over the place when the pie was cut. I will note that I used cornstarch in lieu of potato starch...and I also used 1 1/2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar for the lemon juice. (I didn't want to go to the store for the ingredients I didn't have) One major change I will make for next time is just blending the sugar mixture in with the apples before putting the apples in the crust. After it finished baking, there was stll a heavy layer of t atop the apples...otherwise still very delicious...and nice and gooey.

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Reviewed On: Sep. 22, 2009
Ruth's Grandma's Pie Crust
I thought my other pie crust recipe was good...this will now be my go to pie crust. I imagine that it could be easily halved as the recipe makes a generous double crust. I actually liked having crust dough to spare. It seems like I am always scratching to get enough for my pies. And this crust tastes wonderful...I believe the sugar really adds so much. I used this for a lattice pie, Grandma Opal's Apple Pie from this site. It was delicious as well. Horray for the grandma's!

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Reviewed On: Sep. 18, 2009
 
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