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Sourdoughnative
 
Home Town: El Cerrito, California, USA
Living In: Lake Mills, Iowa, USA
Member Since: May 2002
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Asian, Mexican, Italian, Nouvelle, Healthy, Kids, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies: Gardening, Reading Books, Music
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Half Dome
Waffle Maker
Happy tasters growing up
Four happytasters
About this Cook
I am a Bay Area native, that misses fresh crab, sourdough bread and dry salami out here in the Midwest where meat and potatoes and velveeta cheese rule.
My favorite things to cook
I love to cook from simple to complex. Easy, fresh pasta dishes to more complicated, time consuming fricassees, soups and stews. My family, thank goodness, loves food from diverse cultures and I enjoy making them. We love sushi, lasagna, stew, piccata, stir fry, frittatas, croque monsieur's, seared scallops, pesto and the list goes on and on.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Gig family dinners on Sunday. Everyone sits down to enjoy the meal and reflect on the past week.
My cooking triumphs
Being able to instill in my four children the affinity to experiment with different tastes and textures in food. To not be afraid to try something new.
My cooking tragedies
the first time I tried to make eggplant, it was truly unpalatable.
Recipe Reviews 7 reviews
Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings
This is definitely an excellent base to build a truly wonderful comfort food meal upon. I have made this several times always with rave reviews from everyone who eats it. I omit the onion because I find cooking it for long periods of time in slow cookers it overtakes the whole dish. I do add 2 cups of organic chicken broth. I also prefer adding veges. What ever I have on hand, typically frozen peas, carrots, and or corn. This last time I also added a small amount of frozen corn and cut up fingerling potatoes. I always season with lots of black pepper and onion powder and thyme. I have even put the chicken in frozen. Delicious. Thank you for the recipe.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Mar. 22, 2011
Simply Amazing Meatloaf
gross!!

4 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Sep. 22, 2010
Iowa Maid-Rites
Not even close to a true Iowa Maidrite sandwich. But they are tasty because of all the onion seasoning. Needs alot of tweaking to be useful in any other recipes though. Sorry.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Mar. 10, 2010
 
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