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Mandi
 
Home Town: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Member Since: Jun. 2008
Cooking Level: Expert
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About this Cook
Grew up in the kitchen. Learned from all the women in my family, including 2 professional chefs, lucky me! My family is always in the kitchen, making every ethnic food known to man on any and all occasions. Any reason to eat good food! Because of my extensive hands on experience cooking with my family, my friends are always asking me to cook for them. They come running. Really quite funny, cause cooking just comes natural to me!
My favorite family cooking traditions
Making homemade pierogis every Christmas with the whole family slathered in flour! And of course the yearly homemade Polish/Italian sausage to accompany the pierogis! And last but not least, the yearly Palmeni's. YUM!
Recipe Reviews 10 reviews
Simple Country Ribs
This was a great jumping off recipe! I rubbed my ribs with a rib rub, put them in the pot, covered with a bottle of Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce (our fav), then covered in apple juice (something about cooking/marinating pork in apple juice, it's the bomb) then boiled for about 35-45 min. Then basted the ribs with a little more BBQ sauce, put em on the grill to get a little crispy on the outside. OMG! Ridiculous. FANTASTIC! I have to make these at least once a week now or I go through withdrawals.

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Nov. 16, 2008
Grilled Peanut Chicken
This was really good. I've made twice now. The first time I thought it was a bit too salty, so I left out some of the soy sauce the 2nd time around. It was perfect. I too found that the sauce was very thick, but I just used some chicken broth to thin it down a little. by doing so, it gives you extra sauce for dipping after cooking. Excellent flavor, extremely easy and really good.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Oct. 14, 2008
Apple Crisp II
Oh Mama, this is some excellent, extremely addictive stuff. I've made it twice in the past week. I used Granny Smith apples which are very tart and dry, so I used the whole 1/2 cp of liquid, but I used spiced rum instead. WOW! I also added more cinnammon and some pumpkin pie seasoning to the apples. I made my sugar mixture, then tossed the apples so they were coated perfectly, then topped with the rum. I doubled the top crumbly stuff and just lightly crumbled on top. It was absoutely pefect. Also served with butter pecan ice cream which was awesome. Don't make this unless you want to be addicted to it. :)

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Oct. 14, 2008
 
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