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Living Well
 
Home Town: Buffalo, New York, USA
Living In: Abilene, Texas, USA
Member Since: Apr. 2000
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mediterranean, Healthy, Vegetarian, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Gardening, Camping, Walking, Reading Books, Music
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Me before I lost 30 pounds!
Me and Daisy - they grow up so fast!
A wedding cake I made
My new puppy "Daisy"
My son Adam and his dog "Little Bit"
About this Cook
I am a full-time-working mom of two wonderful kids. I love to cook with my children. My son is really into helping in the kitchen - and my daughter has been cooking since she was eight! My family is currently looking into starting a bakery & restaurant. My love of cooking came from my dear Gramma Papp. She taught me to cook, can, bake, crochet, garden, and love life!
My favorite things to cook
I just LOVE desserts! I adore cake decorating and am quite good at it. I enjoy the old fashioned recipes, the ones people don't use any more for "lack of time". I love to cook from scratch and have recently been exploring my heritage and experimenting with many Pennysylvania Dutch recipes. My forte remains desserts and decorating cakes though!
My favorite family cooking traditions
I always make a big deal out of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. For New Years we have a "nibble tray buffet" that my kids look forward to every year. When times are hard, they will gladly skimp on Thanksgiving and Christmas to get the nibble tray buffet on New Years! Holidays are my favorite time of the year! We really do up Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New years. The whole family gets into the planning and preparation of food and snacks every year.
My cooking triumphs
I just love it when I throw something together from things on hand and come up with a new family favorite! I donated a three layered chocolate fudge wedding cake topped with fresh glazed strawberries and delicate choclate lace pieces to a dear friend for her wedding. It was wonderful - and one of the most technically challenging cakes I have made to date!
My cooking tragedies
When I was a child I put one cup instead of one teaspoon of salt into a cookie recipe. I was so embarrased I threw it over the back fence into the field. The next day all the weeds had died under it!
Recipe Reviews 17 reviews
Whipped Cream Cream Cheese Frosting
I loved this icing! We used it on my sons birthday cupcakes and it was just right. It was a bit soft but piped fine. We weren't really looking for any great detail anyway - just cupcake coverage. Unlike most icings this one was light - delicate - delicious!! Not too sweet with a velvety mouth feel that reminded me of whipped cream. I usually scrape most of the frosting off my cakes and cupcakes but I ate every bit of this icing! If you want something that will not overpower your dessert with a sickly sweet frosting this is it!

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Reviewed On: Oct. 14, 2009
Grandma's Sweet Hubbard Squash Custard Pie
My grandma made this pie every year and it was always a hit! very easy to make - and versatile.

4 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Apr. 18, 2008
Banana Sour Cream Bread
I was specifically looking for a sour cream banana bread that looked like my grammas recipe and I found it! I hate the dry cakey crumbly stuff, this was velvety and moist! We didn't have walnuts so I thrwu in slivered almonds and it was wonderful! As soon as I get more walnuts I will use that as an exuce to make it again! This one is going in my recipe box as a keeper!

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Mar. 31, 2008
 
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