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JLANAM
 
Home Town: Covington, Louisiana, USA
Living In: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Member Since: Oct. 2004
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Photography, Reading Books
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Love cookies
About this Cook
I love sand volleyball and reading, and I'm a Creative Memories consultant. I'm really enjoying getting my 4 kids' pictures into albums so we can all enjoy them! I like to make and decorate cookies and cupcakes for and with my kids.
My favorite things to cook
DESSERT, especially chocolate! Also muffins, because my family always appreciates them.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Crawfish boils, and oliekooks (sp?) on Christmas morning. My children and I started a new tradition of decorating cookies and cupcakes for holidays. (See the pic of our Valentine's Day cookies on this website.)
My cooking triumphs
Mostly desserts, although I made a crawfish ettouffe one time that was out of this world.
My cooking tragedies
Hmmm... I have a hard time getting turkeys done on time. Even with thermometers, sticking them in various places like you're supposed to, something's always undercooked.
Recipe Reviews 30 reviews
A Good Easy Garlic Chicken
Wow! This was great! Usually when I saute chicken I get dry and rubbery, but this really DID come out very moist and tender (and quickly)! For the reviewer who said to use fresh onion and garlic to make the seasoned salt the only salt in the recipe, it IS! Garlic powder and onion powder don't have salt in them. I might cut down a little on the seasoned salt next time, especially if I use prepared chicken broth after I saute it. Homemade (non-salted) broth would be great, and then I added cornstarch and mushrooms and made a sauce. GREAT!

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Reviewed On: Nov. 9, 2009
Megan's Granola
We liked this a lot - and my kids are the kind who like sugary cereals. (Can't get the dad to stop buying it.) For us it was just sweet enough. Don't cut down the sweeteners unless you're the tree-hugging, granola-eating type... oops, um, never mind. We halved the sunflower seeds like one person suggested, and I couldn't taste them, but my daughter did and suggested we leave them out next time. The health food store I got my goodies at didn't have walnuts, so we upped the pecans instead, and they were OUT of oat bran, so that went out, too. (A health food store with NO OAT BRAN? Yeah, really!) We made it with the craisins, and it was tasty! I thought it was a little chewy at the end of 20 minutes but was afraid to burn it thanks to other comments, so I turned off the oven and left it in for about an hour (like we do with meringue). It came out just right - crispy and no longer raw-tasting but not burned. Thanks, Megan!

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Reviewed On: Aug. 30, 2009
Creamy Pesto Shrimp
As written, this recipe must have been FANTASMIC!!! I had 2 lbs shrimp, pesto, and pasta, so I used this as my basis and used about 2-3T butter, about 1/2 c. evaporated milk, a little garlic, and the rest of the pesto (about 1/2 c.). I thickened it with about 1 T. of cornstarch and added the remaining Parmesan (almost a cup). It was great. Thanks a lot! This was just the type of recipe I was looking for, and my adaptation was great!

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Reviewed On: Apr. 22, 2009
 
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