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FairyChick
 
Home Town: Albion, Pennsylvania, USA
Living In: Springboro, Pennsylvania, USA
Member Since: Apr. 2005
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Italian, Southern, Mediterranean, Healthy, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Sewing, Gardening, Hiking/Camping, Camping, Walking, Hunting, Photography, Reading Books, Music, Painting/Drawing
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Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie
Tender Potato Biscuits
Bread Pudding II
Hubby & I
Wave your Flag Cheesecake
About this Cook
My Husband and two children (13 & 8) love to eat! It's sometimes a challenge to come up with Healthy & creative, yet interesting meal ideas that my picky eaters will love.
My favorite things to cook
I love to bake when I have the time, especially breads and desserts. I also love experimenting and trying new recipes. You'll often find me making up my own thing with what I have on hand. I really like making fun Birthday cakes for the kids, last year my daughter got a unicorn head and my son got a skateboard! They were really great! The kids love to help out in the kitchen and that can sometimes be a challenge :)
My favorite family cooking traditions
I usually host all of the holiday gatherings at my house, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, etc. We all love just getting together, sharing food and memories, what better tradition could there be!
My cooking triumphs
I'm just happy when people like what I made. Gives ya that heart warming feeling ;)
My cooking tragedies
Too many to remember! We all make mistakes, it's when you can fix it and no one knows what happened that it counts in cooking!!
Recipe Reviews 11 reviews
Split Pea Soup
YUM! This will be my main split Pea Soup recipe from now on, it was delicious! I used a large meaty ham hock, boiled it in 2quarts of water with 2 bay leaves for about an hour then added 1 diced onion and boiled about 30 more minutes. I soaked the peas in water while the hock boiled and rinsed until water was very clear. Added the peas, 3 diced carrots, 2 diced potatoes and 3 diced celery stalks along with another bay leaf, some thyme, cracked black pepper, fresh rosemary, 1 crushed chicken bullion cube and some parsley. Then simmered it all for about another hour. Stirred in about 1/4 c heavy cream just before serving. Let me tell you It was so good! Made a great New Year's Day dish with hot homemade rolls and brownies for dessert :)

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 1, 2009
Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie
These were really good cookies, they were a little different and didn't have the usual taste but we rally liked them. I got 18 cookies exactly using my Large Pampered Chef scooper (1/4 cup) I didn't have reg choc chips so I had to use 1 cup of Bittersweet Ghirardelli chips and 1 cup of chopped pecans. The brown sugar makes them sweet and chewy. I used just a tad less of both sugars and only had dark brown sugar. I also didn't press down the cookies, I The first batch I scooped right out (5 to a sheet) and stuck in oven for 16 minutes, they were perfect, the others I had put the dough in fridge in betweena nd pressed down a little but wish I hadn't, they came out flatter and not as nice looking.

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Sep. 29, 2008
Tender Potato Biscuits
I finally found a way to use up those leftover potatoes no one eats! This is a wonderful savory biscuit recipe! They turned out moist on the inside and nice and crunchy outside just the way I like 'em! The potatoes I used were red skin ones that I had "smashed" with butter, fresh rosemary, thyme & chives the night before so that really gave these biscuits great flavor! I didn't use all the water called for, maybe half of it. Also I used about 1/2 the sugar called for. I didn't really need the dough, just pressed it together then patted it out. I got a dozen biscuits out of it! These are only second to Kentucky biscuits on this site (only because you can eat those ones with jam, these ones just didn't taste as good cold)

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Sep. 1, 2008
 
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