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daisyk
 
Home Town: Missoula, Montana, USA
Living In: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Member Since: Oct. 2007
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Slow Cooking, Mexican, Indian, Southern, Middle Eastern, Vegetarian, Dessert
Hobbies: Needlepoint, Hiking/Camping, Walking, Photography, Reading Books, Music, Painting/Drawing
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Blackened Green Beans
About this Cook
I'm a writer who walks Labrador retrievers to stretch her advances after happily leaving the world of publishing. I try to stick to a strict weighed & measured food plan with no sugar & no flour -- not always successfully but I keep trying anyway.
My favorite things to cook
Having said I try to avoid sugar & flour, I'm a terrific baker. My specialties, however, have become vegetables. Not vegetarian: vegetables. When I'm adhering to my food plan, I eat many, many vegetables.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Christmas cookies, especially roll-out sugar cookies. Christmas tea breads as gifts. Mincemeat pies at Thanksgiving & Christmas, with venison mincemeat. We owned an orchard for many years so we canned a lot of fruit, made jams & pies.
Recipe Reviews 16 reviews
Chocolate Snowballs
I watched these disappear before I had a chance to pack them up as gifts. I made one change, based on an allrecipes video -- I added a teaspoon of ancho chili powder and a couple of liberal grinds of black pepper. This intensified the taste and the depth of the cocoa. I will definitely be commanded to make them next Christmas. They also soften nicely when stored. Great with a glass of milk.

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Reviewed On: Jan. 29, 2012
Czech Stuffed Green Peppers
The pepper filling needs a tad more salt but the sauce makes this unusual and satisfying.

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Reviewed On: Oct. 24, 2009
Butternut Squash, Apple, Onion Au Gratin
The only modifications I made were using the entire bag of pre-grated cheese & vegtable broth (I didn't have chicken on hand). I took it to a dinner party & it won HUGE raves. A perfect autumn dish & adequate as a main course.

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Reviewed On: Oct. 24, 2009
 
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