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Grace
 
Member Since: Apr. 2008
Cooking Level: Beginning
Cooking Interests: Baking, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean
Hobbies: Photography, Reading Books, Music, Painting/Drawing
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About this Cook
I'm just a student at the present moment, cooking when I can find the time around my schoolwork and extracurricular activities. I really want to start a small bakery when I grow up and design everything from the store to the menu to the plates. In my free time, I also like to read, draw, listen to music, and take photographs. I hope to travel all over the world when I have enough money to do so. :) You may contact me via email: baddrace@gmail.com [since I can't seem to find a way to talk to other cooks, maybe they'll find a way to talk to me...]
My favorite things to cook
Ooh, [I only do the easy things] hummus, pasta, sandwiches, cupcakes, brownies, etc.
My favorite family cooking traditions
We don't have any! Can you believe it? I should start some...
My cooking triumphs
Um... oh! A pesto pasta with pepperoni slices. It was really good, but now I'm a vegetarian. [laughs] But I made it by scratch without any recipe! Now that I think back, I'm not sure how I did it...
My cooking tragedies
Oh, there are so many. One time I [and you would think you couldn't mess up with an out-of-the-box recipe, but you can] was using one of those Pillsbury brownie mixes to cheat and get some easy quick brownies, but apparently they don't cook the same in toaster ovens! I hadn't known that, and the next day [cause I just left them in there after they baked], I was hurrying to get out of the house for school when I realized that the brownie was still goo on the inside! What a failure!
Recipe Reviews 5 reviews
Chess Cake
The recipe was easy to make, but it turned out just a bit too greasy for me. I halved the amount of sugar added though, so maybe I should have halved the butter as well for the topping. But... I'm not sure I'll make this again. The bottom of the cake was also a bit coarse/hard in my opinion, and I would have rather had a softer cake on the bottom.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jul. 30, 2008
Easy Chocolate Crackled Cookies
The cookies smelled wonderful in the oven! I followed the advice of others and refrigerated the dough for about 30 minutes in the freezer. After baking, I let them rest a few minutes on the baking sheet before transferring to racks, and let them cool for only a few minutes before I ran out of patience and ate some. The texture inside was a bit cake-like, but that's slightly expected because of the cake mix ingredient. The cookie wasn't too sweet, and it had almost like a... bittersweet chocolate flavor. Easy to make, pretty good-- will make again some other time when I'm craving chocolate.

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Reviewed On: Jul. 24, 2008
Quick and Easy Alfredo Sauce
I rated this recipe a 4.5 because there could have been more flavor to it. I added a bit of Italian herbs to it, and it seemed that it could have been a bit more salty. And, if you're eating for one, then scaling down the recipe to a serving size of one is more than enough for a plate of pasta. Good luck!

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Reviewed On: Jul. 6, 2008
 
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