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Mellie
 
Home Town: Wasilla, Alaska, USA
Living In: Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Member Since: Aug. 2008
Cooking Level: Beginning
Cooking Interests: Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Healthy, Vegetarian, Dessert, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies: Gardening, Hiking/Camping, Boating, Biking, Walking, Fishing, Hunting, Photography, Reading Books, Wine Tasting
About this Cook
It is just me and my husband. We are both employed more than full-time. He is the gourmet cook. I do the "pity cooking". When he has had a bad day I try my best to make something that doesn't taste awful. :)
My favorite things to cook
My favorite dish is my green chili chicken enchiladas. Pretty much the only thing I can make that pleases everyone.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Um...my mom was a single working mother with three girls to raise by herself. Pretty much hamburger helper or Pizza Hut.
My cooking triumphs
I made a cheesecake once that didn't give anyone food poisoning. Or they were too polite to tell me about it.
My cooking tragedies
There are too many to count. The night I dropped and smashed a Prrex measuring cup right next to a pan of sauteeing onions wasn't a highlight.
Recipe Reviews 14 reviews
Spinach and Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta
Very, very easy and simple recipe but tastes great! Quick to prepare and very pretty once cooked and plated. Hints: If you like spicy food, add more pepper flakes. Also, more spinach makes it a little more healthy but still does not overwhelm the recipe. I used extra firm tofu (cubed) instead of chicken or shrimp as a protien and it complemented well.

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Reviewed On: May 19, 2009
Biscochitos Traditional Cookies
I am giving this recipe 4 stars because of the ease and the basic ingredients used. The cookies were quite good, the directions were clear and concise and the baking time was spot-on. However, I did not give them 5 stars because they are definitely not **quite** authentic. My sisters and I made these cookies to include in my welcome baskets for the guests attending my wedding in Santa Fe, NM and the recipe we used had about 15-20 ingredients and the cookies were MUCH more authentic tasting. I did not have most of the ingredients on-hand (or the time or desire!!) to duplicate that recipe. This is an easy, very quick recipe that will give you good results but is missing just a little **something**.

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Reviewed On: May 8, 2009
Blueberry Snack Cake
I used this recipe because of the overwhelming number of good reviews and I had all the ingredients on-hand. First, this took MUCH, much longer than the posted 35 minutes. I had to remove it at about 40 miutes, cover the edges with foil and return for about another 15 miutes to bake the center. Second, I'm just gonna be bkunt: It wasn't awful but I just don't get all the rave reviews. It was nothing more than a bland blueberry muffin in a pan. Third, It was very moist and with some *tweaking* to add flavor, this is a good base recipe. I will not be making this again. It is not worth using hand-picked, organic, wild Alaskan blueberries in this dish. I felt like I wasted them. Also, the reason it is so moist is because of the extraoridary amount of butter used. SOOOO not worth the caloric intake.

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Reviewed On: May 3, 2009
 
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