Doug Matthews
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Home Town: Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Living In: Mendham, New Jersey, USA
Member Since: Mar. 2000
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Southern, Healthy, Kids, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Gardening, Reading Books, Music, Charity Work
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Colorful Coleslaw with a kick
Me & my sous chefs
About this Cook
My mother decided early on that her sons would never have to rely on someone to feed them so we all learned to cook at an early age. I really started to branch out when I moved out west to Denver, SF & Dallas. Combine that with extended business travel to Louisiana & my growing love of spices and you get a real mix of flavors.
My favorite things to cook
Love to make cajun food with my favorites being crawfish pie, alligator stew & alligator chili - I go nuts on Super Bowl Sunday
My favorite family cooking traditions
We didn't have a lot of traditions per se but you could count on pancakes or waffles on sundays - dad making scrambled eggs twice a year on christmas morning & mother's day - veal parmagiana on christmas eve, Thanksgiving with Grandma Matthews and any menu of your choice on your birthday. We weren't a spicy family so I learned a lot of good strong basics in the kitchen from Mom that I have carried over into my cooking today.
My cooking triumphs
I love to experiment with variations of dishes I try around the country. My biggest success is here on allrecipes where I had 2 recipes published in the same cookbook - Southwestern Turkey Soup & Curried Carrot Soup. I think my corn muffins are a great starting point and my alligator chili has become a much requested Super Bowl favorite.
My cooking tragedies
I can really only think of twice where everything has failed at once during a dinner party and in botyh cases I tossed everything and took everyone to a restaurant instead. I'm not too proud to say my cooking is awful when it really is.
Recipe Reviews 42 reviews
Colorful Coleslaw with a Kick
Lately I have begun to use 1/4 cup of olive oil instead of a 1/2 cup, Key Lime Juice instead of regular lime juice and twice the hot sauce.

12 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Aug. 8, 2005
Texas Crabgrass
Awesome recipe - I added an extra 1/4C of cheese and baked at 350 for 30 minutes to bake out some of the moisture - my kids hate spinach and they liked it - this will be making some potluck appearances in the future

7 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Feb. 4, 2004
Pumpkin Chili
Used ground turkey instead of beef, black beans instead of kidney beans and a full 15 ounce can of pumpkin because I didn't know what to do with the rest of it - tasted great but I will cut back on the sugar some next time - thanks

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Dec. 9, 2003
 
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