Member Since:
May 2008
Cooking Level:
Intermediate
Cooking Interests:
Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Dessert, Quick & Easy
Hobbies:
Scrapbooking, Quilting, Sewing, Needlepoint, Gardening, Camping, Reading Books, Music, Genealogy
My favorite things to cook
Unfortunately, anything involving sugar & fat.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Baking my Mom's Austrian Christmas cookies. I start Thanksgiving weekend, and add a few other recipes into the mix of what to send out to friends and teachers. But Mom's are the perenial favorites.
My cooking tragedies
Two worst - a) When living in Illinois we had guests over for dinner one night. I was making a stir-fry. Being, as usual, in rather a frantic rush to get the house clean, the table set, and the food cooked I didn't examine my rice before measuring into the boiling water. When the guests were seated at the table I went to pull the rice from the stove and noticed little pink things in it - there were cooked moth larvae all through the rice! I nearly threw up. Needless to say, we just ate our stir-fry with chow mein noodles on side, instead of on a nice rice bed.
B) Just recently I was making a Hungarian Stew for Sunday dinner. This is one of my favorite recipes, and it uses a huge amount of beef. I'd gotten some London Broil on a great sale at my grocers and had used that instead of stew beef. I was so excited - it was going to be so good! It simmers for two hours, so when I got massively tired I set my alarm and took a brief nap. In my sleep, I could smell the stew cooking. I ev