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KCANDROSE
 
Home Town: Los Angeles, California, USA
Living In: Seattle, Washington, USA
Member Since: Aug. 2003
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Low Carb, Healthy, Vegetarian, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy
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me and the kids
About this Cook
I am a happily married stay-at-home mom with two delightful children. I love to volunteer at their schools. I'm into music, reading and working out at the health club.
My favorite things to cook
Gotta be cookies, now that I have my new kitchen and my pantry is right at my elbow, instead of 35 feet away in the laundry room. So it's good that I like to work out!
My favorite family cooking traditions
The date nut cake at Christmas time, having the children get involved in cooking at an early age, roasting turkey (love the aroma!) for holidays, Dad's hamburgers on Saturday nights.
My cooking triumphs
My main triumph is getting dinner on the table every night. We can't afford to eat out much, or even afford fast food. No one told me that one of the hardest things about being a parent was coming up with dinner ideas, night after night after night.
Recipe Reviews 23 reviews
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Easy Baklava
This is an easy awesome recipe with lovely results. I have made this several times, using orange zest, and it's gone quickly every time. I use more like 5-6 tbsp of the chopped nuts (I use walnut) per layer, start with 6 leaves of the phyllo and put 4 in between, top with 6, according to other reviews. I use a Pampered Chef chopper for the nuts, goes quickly.

8 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 26, 2011
High Temperature Eye-of-Round Roast
I was not impressed. I followed this recipe to the T, using a 2 pound roast. It came out dry and tough. I ended up using the leftovers to make a beef noodle soup, and even after simmering the meat for almost two hours it was still tough.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Feb. 4, 2010
Turkey Burger Pie
I read a lot of reviews and made my own version of this. Ground turkey is pretty bland on its own. I used taco seasoning to season it up some. I also grated two small zucchini and added that to the meat as I browned it. After using the taco seasoning mix and adding the water, it had to cook somewhat longer than usual because the zucchini added extra liquid (even after draining). I used 1 cup Bisquick, two eggs, and 1 1/4 cup almond milk (we're lactose intolerant) for the topping. Both picky kids liked this, especially after I called it 'taco pie' instead of turkey burger pie. It's an easy recipe to adapt to your own tastes.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Sep. 24, 2009
 
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