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brandthebaker
 
Home Town: Bakersfield, California, USA
Living In: Berkeley, California, USA
Member Since: Jul. 2009
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Stir Frying, Asian, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Vegetarian, Dessert, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Hiking/Camping, Biking, Reading Books, Music
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About this Cook
College student...not enough time, but I love to bake, and recently started to love cooking too :).
My favorite things to cook
Cakes (from scratch!), Dutch Apple or Chocolate Cream Pie, and anything with eggplant!
My favorite family cooking traditions
My mom and I always bake cupcakes for Halloween and hand them out to our trick-or-treaters. Every year we see who can find the best recipe for cupcakes, and we make them and share them with everyone.
My cooking triumphs
I have successfully gotten the most staunch carnivore I know to eat meatless food for the past 3 months...it's kind of awesome.
My cooking tragedies
Pie crust...I can NEVER manage to get it to come out just right, I have made at least 15 pie crusts in the last couple of months and none of them stay in the shape I want...one day I will overcome, I just want that day to come WAAAY sooner.
Recipe Reviews 1 review
Spinach Lasagna III
Such a good recipe! My roommate, who despises (or at least does not really enjoy) things without meat in them ate more of it than I did. Some variations I included were that I didn't have the Romano cheese so I used extra mozzarella in the mozzarella/ parmesan layers. Also, I only had 2 cups of ricotta cheese, and so I followed the suggestion of someone else on here, and didn't cook my noodles all the way (just before al dente really) and added some water to the cheese/ spinach mixture. This made it come out just right. Also, I tried putting red pepper flakes into the mixture (just about 2 tsp) and it was ok, they sort of got lost in the overall mixture. But on a whole this was a huge hit with both my roommate/ friends/ family that I HAD to share!

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Reviewed On: Nov. 7, 2009
 
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