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sarahdallalonga
 
Living In: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Member Since: Oct. 2009
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Frying, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Camping, Biking, Walking, Photography, Reading Books, Music
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About this Cook
I have been cooking and baking for as long as I can remember. When I still lived at home, my mother taught me.. but unfortunately she wasn't the best cook. Everything she made had a tendancy to be bland or cooked in the microwave, so I did not learn a whole lot from her. It wasn't until I met my husband that I REALLY started to learn! He really encourages me to try new things and to not be scared in the kitchen.
My favorite things to cook
Cookies, cookies and more cookies!!! It's what I'm best at and what I've been cooking for the longest.
My cooking triumphs
Getting an A in my Foods class back in high school! I know, I know.. that's not a *real* triumph. I guess my biggest triumph would be that I have never compeltely ruined a dish before.. I've always been able to salvage it no matter how bad things look!
My cooking tragedies
Lumpy mashed potatoes... every single time :( sigh! One of these days I will perfect the mashed potato...
Recipe Reviews 10 reviews
Mint Chocolate Truffle Cookies
I love these cookies! I've been making them with my Christmas cookies for the past few years. One complaint I have is that the serving seems to be off, I got about 60 cookies out of the recipe instead of 22. Instead of refridgerating the dough, I put it in the freezer 30 minutes. Then I roll out the dough and put it on a cookie sheet, and then put the cookie sheet in the freezer for an additional 10 minutes. This seems to stop the cookies from spreading in the oven. I keep the bowl of dough in the fridge between batches as well. The cookies only needed 9 minutes to cook in my oven. Also, in previous years I had trouble crushing the candy cane. One year I tried a hammer (lol) and ended up with more candy cane on the floor than on the cookies. Another year, I tried the blender and I couldn't get the pieces fine enough. They also clumped up really bad even though my blender was perfectly dry. This year I found the PERFECT device! I used my coffee grinder, and it got the candy cane super fine - just how I like it. I coat the entire top of the cookie with the candy cane to help with the blandness.

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Reviewed On: Dec. 20, 2009
Swedish Chocolate Balls (or Coconut Balls)
These were great and very simple to make! I coated mine with icing sugar.. quite festive :) Reminded me of snowballs. The only thing I had trouble with is that the dough wouldn't stick together at first for me. But I just popped the mixture into the deep-freeze for 30 minutes and all was well!

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Reviewed On: Dec. 9, 2009
Good Old Fashioned Pancakes
Delicious! Much better than any box mix :)

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Reviewed On: Dec. 9, 2009
 
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