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DANDK1997
 
Home Town: Owego, New York, USA
Member Since: Mar. 2002
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Healthy, Vegetarian, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Gardening, Boating, Reading Books, Painting/Drawing
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About this Cook
former pro pastry chef, now learning to love regular cooking.
My favorite things to cook
Indian chole, baked goods, pizza.
My favorite family cooking traditions
My mom's kolachkies, the recipe for which I will never share. :)
My cooking triumphs
Christmas cookie madness every year.
My cooking tragedies
The little flower girl and ring bearer cakes I made for my wedding- on the way to the baker's house, a woman pulled right in front of me and I had to slam on the brakes in order to live to see my wedding. Unfortunately, the cakes didn't make it. And the really rotten risotto. I added too much lemon juice, and there was absolutely no recovering from it. My kind husband ate the horrible mess, though.
Recipe Reviews 42 reviews
Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms with Grilled Onions
I'm not a mushroom fan, but my husband absolutely adores these. We have made them on the grill and also in the oven, and we have also switched up the cheese- sometimes feta, herbed feta, bleu cheese, gorgonzola....any similar cheese would work well. We made these with the onions the first time, but haven't bothered with them any time since. They are just a distraction.

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Reviewed On: Jan. 22, 2009
Monkey Bread II
Decent basic recipe. I used my metal bench scraper to cut the dough quickly into little pieces. To streamline the coating process, I poured the slightly cooled butter mixture in a plastic bag and tossed the dough pieces in to coat, then took them all out at placed them into the pan at the same time. I had way too much butter mixture, so I made a second batch of dough and had plenty of butter mixture for the second loaf, which will go into the freezer. Even so, I still had at least 1/2 cup of the butter mixture left. I'm not big on wasting expensive ingredients like butter, so I will make less next time, or maybe find another recipe. (I added nutmeg and vanilla to the first bread, and instant chai mix to the second.)

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Reviewed On: Jan. 18, 2009
Winter Squash Rolls
This was a very good roll recipe. First, I want to say that 1 1/3 c cubed squash would seem to equal about 1 1/4 pureed squash. I thawed frozen pureed squash and had to look at other recipes to figure out which ratio of squash to flour might be right. Also, I want to jump on the serving size bandwagon- I halved the recipe and still ended up with 24 average sized rolls, so if there are truly 12 serving per recipe, that would mean 4 rolls per serving on 1 humongous (read: small loaf) roll. Took this for Thanksgiving dinner and everyone enjoyed, especially the kids. My 5 yo couldn't get enough and ate 3 right out of the oven.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Nov. 30, 2008
 
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