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Jules
 
Member Since: Mar. 2008
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Indian, Mediterranean, Healthy
Hobbies: Photography, Music
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About this Cook
I'm an artistic and adventerous person. Cooking/baking is a total art to me. I experimented a lot with recipes when I was younger, but have been getting more into cooking the past couple of years. Love cooking for holidays and throwing little parties with particular food themes.
My favorite things to cook
I love baking or making interesting desserts, I also love experimenting with sugar free & dairy free recipes. Love making healthy food and anything that I can make look really artistic.
My cooking tragedies
Oh man, I have disasters all the time. My food allergies tend to put me on a quest to make great tasting food that is free of most "everyday" ingredients, and to be honest, it's not the easiest thing to do. An actual experience, though, is when my neighbor-friend and I tried making our own recipe for muffins when we were probably 9. We tried making them into "angel-thumbprint muffins" using all sorts of jam flavors.. yeah, basically it turned into brown goo, tasting of burnt jolly ranchers. I think my dad made use of the gooey mess, so it wasn't a total waste . . .
Recipe Reviews 8 reviews
Vegan Lasagna I
Awesome recipe, but am giving it 3 stars because it could have been better. I didn't have to use all of the tofu mixture-- used 1 lb silken and 1 lb firm tofu. As for the tomato sauce filling, I had a bit of a disaster and for the top 2 layers had to use cans of stewed tomatoes on their own (rather than simmered with the other ingredients), which is probably why it came out so watery even after 40 minutes in the oven. HOWEVER, the next day it is so much better, everything is held together and tastes good, just lacking a particular flavor, maybe soy cheese would help. Over my 3rd tofu layer I sprinkled garlic powder everywhere (yum, that helped.) All stewed tomatoes used were an Italian blend. I also used whole wheat lasagna noodles and am glad it turned out. You definitely do NOT need to use much spinach, I used about half of a 16oz pkg. I've made this once before- a worse experience, and am going to keep making this until I perfect it! PS: non-vegan, tofu hating people can't tell this is made w/ tofu. They like it a lot. :]

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Reviewed On: Oct. 31, 2009
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough + Cupcake = The BEST Cupcake. Ever.
This could have easily been 5 stars, probably should have followed the recipe exactly. I used some leftover sugar-cookie dough I had been freezing and added carob chips to some, then butterscotch chips to the rest. Yeah, not the best cookie dough in there. Will definitely try these again some time but will make regular chocolate chip cookie dough. Awesome that the cupcakes cook right over the dough, I added an extra amount of yellow-cake mix to some, thinking they wouldn't work without the addition, but those cupcakes turned out huge! Definitely works to fill the liners 1/2-3/4 of the way full.

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Reviewed On: Oct. 31, 2009
Cool Whipped Frosting
Yum! I used a ton of pumpkin pie spice-- holy amazing. It tastes great. Also added some shredded coconut and a tiny bit of agave syrup. Used sugar-free cool whip too. Awesome.

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Reviewed On: Jun. 6, 2009
 
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