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Chris & Leela
 
Member Since: Mar. 2008
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Mexican, Italian, Mediterranean, Vegetarian, Quick & Easy
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Chreela!
About this Cook
We are a geeky/hippie couple that are loving it up in Humboldt County. We are vegetarian and don't mind telling our meat-eating friends about what they are eating when they are eating it. As we are students, we have to make quick meals, but we try our damnedest to make it absurdly delicious.
My favorite things to cook
Cornbread and a big pot of vegetarian chili really hits the spot when finals come around; pizza is a fun weekend dinner that yields leftovers fit to freeze.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Christmas cookies, of course. Both of us have over-eager grandmothers that are always keen to flaunt their traditional Norwegian cookie recipes.
My cooking triumphs
Grilled pesto sandwiches. Tomato, onion, basil pesto (the recipe is here, "simple garlic and basil pesto"), mozzarella cheese and sourdough bread. Best grilled cheese sandwich/panini ever!
My cooking tragedies
Sweet macaroni and cheese. No, not sweet as in "awesome," sweet as in "sweetened condensed milk."
Recipe Reviews 9 reviews
Molasses Sugar Cookies I
Incredibly delicious! I have been poisoned against molasses cookies ever since my Grandma's super-molasses-y cookies, but these were terrific. They are light and made for dipping in milk. And of course, use butter instead of shortening.

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Reviewed On: Nov. 8, 2008
Peanut Butter Cookies IV
Wow. Totally wow. I'm used to peanut butter cookies being big crumbly things, but if taken out before 10 minutes, these are delightfully light and soft. My oven might be too hot, as the perfect batch came out at 7 minutes- after that they get more crispy-crunchy. We have unsweetened fresh-ground peanut butter, so we used a tablespoon or so extra sugar. We absolutely enjoyed it being dipped in sugar; it tastes quite like a sugar cookie. If that is too sweet for you, then I'd recommend that you take the advice of some and not dip them in sugar. Also, we just put all the ingredients in at once: lazy chef certified!

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Nov. 8, 2008
Gaye's Microwave Fudge
We absolutely loved how this came out. The powdered sugar offered in bulk at the store was rather chunky, so incorporating it was difficult. It cooled fast and was hard to stir; microwaving it again made it easier to stir and didn't harm it in the slightest. The product is still being savored!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Sep. 28, 2008
 
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