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Shekia Taylor
 
Home Town: Tallulah, Louisiana, USA
Living In: Cumming, Georgia, USA
Member Since: Aug. 2008
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Southern, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Healthy, Vegetarian, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
About this Cook
I am a 29 year old wife and mother of 2 beautiful little girls. I love cooking and have been cooking since I was 8 years old because both of my parents worked and I wanted to help out with my brothers and sisters.
My favorite things to cook
Zucchini bread Southern & Southwestern Black eyed peas (and most other legumes) Turkey Wings Neck Bones Corny-Corn Bread Traditional Banana Pudding (from homemade custard w/marangue) Quick Banana Pudding (from pudding packets and whipped cream) Roast Beef & Gravy Southern Style Sweet potatoe (not the cassarole!!!!) Baked Sweet Potatoes w/light brown sugar spice butter topping Potatoe Salad Dirty rice, fried or baked chicken, Snickerdoodles Brownies Pound Cake Nigerian red stew & rice, fried plantain (doe-doe) Ogbono Soup (draw soup) and fufu Jamaican Oxtail, Rice & peas, saltfish fritters Jamaican Stew Beef Jamaican Curry chicken all kinds of veggies....lots of food because I love to cook!
My favorite family cooking traditions
American, Nigerian & Jamaican food are what our family is traditionally about. Mom is American, Dad is Nigerian, and my husband is Jamaican so I have many different cravings to satisfy. Our family also enjoys foods from other cultures that are similar to our cuisine like: Indian, middle eastern, mediterainian, asian, french/creole & english....We like to keep it spicy!!!!!!!!!!!
My cooking triumphs
My husband has 1,000,000,000 allergies. Ok, not really, but he's allergic to milk, nuts, corn and corn bi-products and extreemly sensitive to molasses, and brown sugar. I've been able to make almost any recipe without these ingrediants and still keep the falvor of the orig. recipe. I've served it to people who have no allergies and they didn't know that they were eating foods prepaired with these allergies in mind: No milk baked Mac n cheese No Corn Starch gravies and pies No Corn Starch frostings (powdered sugar has corn starch) No Milk pancakes, biscuts No Milk/no cornsyrup breads the list goes on and on
My cooking tragedies
well... a lot of trial and error on the allergy food lol and lets not talk about the number of rock hard biscuts from when I was a little girl...lol....burned dishes from falling asleep or putting it on low and leaving the house "cuz i'll be right back" lol
 
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