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FOXFIRE2
 
Home Town: Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada
Living In: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Member Since: Dec. 2003
Cooking Level: Beginning
Cooking Interests: Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Boating, Biking, Walking, Fishing, Photography, Reading Books, Music, Painting/Drawing
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Garbo Marlow and I
Marlow and Garbo trying to make mama feel better from her terrible cold!
Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies II
Ceilidh and I
Different Chicken Divan
About this Cook
As a child my mother boiled and mashed every vegetable to death - might be why I have an aversion to veggies! Cooking is a creative outlet for me and a great way to discover how to be economical when grocery shopping. I try to meal plan suppers that leave leftovers for lunch the next day! Because I am new at finding foods that are easy to make and leave leftovers, cassaroles seem to always be for supper at least twice a week!!!!
My favorite things to cook
I would really love to cook healthy and inspiring food! However, I still have my aversion to veggies!
My favorite family cooking traditions
Lobster boils!! But not boiled veggies!!! LOL !!!
My cooking triumphs
A work in progress!!!
My cooking tragedies
When my cousin and I were young we decided to try a new way to cook an easy make cake. These cakes were just add water (?) with a baking pan included. We mixed the chocolate with chocolate chip batter and then we fried it in a pan on a coleman stove!!! The cake stuck so badly to the pan that it had to be thrown out and my Doberman Ajax (who ate everything!) wouldn't even go near it!! I think she even let out a cry and ran away!!!! And about 3 years ago I made Kraft Dinner with extra pepper to try and spice it up a bit!!! I called my husband Eddie into the kitchen to try it. He started gagging and spit the Kraft Dinner in the garbage!! I put so much pepper into the Kraft Dinner that it was grey!!! We still laugh about that!!
Recipe Reviews 34 reviews
Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies II
Followed recipe as is. My husband Eddie only likes the soft and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies - he LOVED these cookies!!!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Feb. 24, 2007
Melissa's Mussels
I didn't have the onion and used onion powder instead, used red cooking wine in place of red wine. I used canned plum tomatos and pureed the ingredients. It seemed to have a really nice flavor before mussels added. But as the mussels cooked, the sauce thinned and lost flavor. I imagine not using the onion & real red wine made a difference in the flavor. I prefer a white wine base with garlic instead of tomatoe/red wine base.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 1, 2007
Thumbprint Cookies I
The only changes I made were as other members suggested: I baked 15 mins longer and didn't turn oven temp. up as jam needs time to set, I used a sweet jam - Smuckers Rasberry Jam, I used a sandwich baggie filled with jam and cut a small hole in corner to fill the thumbprint (my thumb is small so I presses deeper bigger dents because I love LOTS of jam - I pressed too hard and some of the cookies stuck to the pan). This recipe is a perfect amount for 2 people homes like mine. These cookies are exacty the way I remember them!! Thank you C. Keith for this classic cookie recipe!

13 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Dec. 27, 2006
 
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