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Jewelsie
 
Home Town: Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA
Living In: Jamestown, New York, USA
Member Since: Sep. 2001
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Italian, Healthy, Vegetarian, Dessert, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies: Knitting, Sewing, Gardening, Hiking/Camping, Walking, Photography, Reading Books, Painting/Drawing
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Fall cake
Fall cake
Sunshine the Cat
Open Faced Concord Grape Pie
About this Cook
I'm just a girl that craves to create in as many ways as she possibly can :) Cooking is the only way that's fun both while you're making it and after, though!
My favorite things to cook
I especially love to bake and do desserts, but it's fun and tasty to try my hand at asian inspired dishes, as well. I'm vegetarian, so I get the challenge of doing all this without meat :)
My favorite family cooking traditions
Giant family potlucks on warm summer days always bring fond memories. Just recently, I've been able to start bring something all my own, and it's lots of fun when everyone tells me how great my cooking is.
My cooking triumphs
The best thing I've done with my cooking is help my husband learn to cook on his own, too :) Nothing's better than that.
My cooking tragedies
It was a week before our wedding, and I had the menu all planned out and all the ingredients ready for me to cook them up. I had even planned on making the wedding cake all on my own. And then, right when I needed it, my oven stopped working and we couldn't get a new one to our house for another week! Thankfully I got the cake and all the food cooked, thanks to my future mother-in-law. But it was a pretty close shave!
Recipe Reviews 45 reviews
Oranged Cranberry Sauce
This is very tasty, but I disagree with the author. You can TOO overcook this. I made this twice because the first time, the sauce really burned up and tasted blackened the whole way through. So the second time, I turned the heat way way down and watched it very closely. Within just one minute it started to burn. Thankfully I caught it fast enough to save it. I don't know what to do about the burning. Maybe I didn't add enough water, but it's hard to tell how much you need. You can't "cover" the cranberries because they float! Anyway, this was very good and I hope to perfect the method someday.

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Reviewed On: Nov. 26, 2009
Marshmallow Fondant
This was so much better than the traditional fondant! It was very sweet, but isn't that what icing is supposed to be anyway? I added maple flavoring to it and it really perked it up and made it much more interesting! My advice would be to let the fondant cool before kneading it. It's VERY sticky otherwise!

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Reviewed On: Oct. 27, 2009
Lemon Icing
Great frosting! Really tasty. I didn't have fresh lemon juice, so I used the bottled kind and added a little lemon extract to make up for it. I may have used less butter though.

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Reviewed On: Sep. 11, 2009
 
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