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ButtercupBento
 
Home Town: Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, England, U.K.
Member Since: Jul. 2003
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Vegetarian
Hobbies: Camping, Reading Books, Music, Wine Tasting
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Spiced Parsnip Soup
Zucchini Cake III
Banana Oat Muffins
Me on my wedding day
About this Cook
I'm 31 and married with no kids.
My favorite things to cook
My husband is a veggie so most of my meals are veggie friendly or the occasional meat dish I can scale down to one portion. I have recently started baking again.
My favorite family cooking traditions
My mum is an awful cook (sorry mum!) who specialises in slow cooker or prefrozen dishes. Whereas my dad makes a mean chilli. I have pretty much taught myself to cook.
My cooking triumphs
This would have to be Boxing Day a few years ago, I cooked roast beef for the first time for 8 people and it was great, if I do say so myself.
My cooking tragedies
I have this terrible tendancy to invite friends over for dinner and drinking too much wine during the meal and not serving dessert. I have learnt to make chilled dessert in advance. Or the time I first made cheese potoatoes at high school and didn't drain the potoates before mashing them.
Recipe Reviews 37 reviews
Lamb Tagine
Made this using the spices but as a veggie version with 1 400g can chopped tomatoes, 1 chopped aubergine, 1 200g can garbanzo beans, 1 sliced red pepper and a few handfuls of chopped spinach. I roasted the aubergine and added it with the spinach after simmering the rest for 30 mins with a squeeze of lemon juice to refresh it. This was delicious. Thank you. I have added the spice mix to my recipe book.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Sep. 5, 2009
Aloha Coleslaw
Liked how simple this was compared to the great flavour. Added some other veggies to it as that's what we had on hand e.g. red bell pepper, carrot, onion, cabbage, pineapple. The only downside - that I have no idea whether it tastes better the next day as none lasted that long :)

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 3, 2009
Pumpkin Pie Spice II
Used this in Mrs. Sigg's Fresh Pumpkin Pie recipe and it worked well. Never tried pumpkin pie before so have no idea how godd this is compared to other blends though. Yummy!

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Mar. 1, 2009
 
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