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Mare
 
Home Town: Staten Island, New York, USA
Living In: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Member Since: Jul. 2005
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Southern, Low Carb, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Knitting, Sewing, Needlepoint, Walking, Photography, Reading Books, Music
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Delicious Snowballs!
Oatmeal peanutbutter & Chocolate chip cookies
The BEST Sugar Cookies ever!
My Perfect Pumpkin Pie!
About this Cook
I'm a stay at home mom to Jessica 4 1/2 years old, and love to cook up good dinners for us to share as a family, especially dinners that make great lunch leftovers.
My favorite things to cook
Holiday baking is my specialty, but I love to make casseroles, one dish type of meals, also salads, soups and anything my daughter helps me to whip up.
My favorite family cooking traditions
My parents passed when I was young, so making the dishes they made for me as a child is very special to me, like my Mom's shrimp macaroni salad, her hamburger casserole, and my Dad's Manhattan clamchowder and his special pancakes. My mom was also a great holiday baker, I do her butter cookies every year!
My cooking triumphs
My hand painted holiday chocolates, including a X-mas tree chocolate puzzle...my meatloaf ( recipe adapted from one on this site) and cheese onion enchiladas.
My cooking tragedies
My one attempt at making bread, the yeast was expired, which I noticed when the bread was done and it was brick like in taste, texture and weight!
Recipe Reviews 42 reviews
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies II
I was looking for a new cookie recipe for a Fall Bake sale, and thought these sounded good, so I made the recipe just about verbatim, only added a few tablespoons of cherry juice to the dough, got a nice soft dough that was surprisingly not too sticky. I used a teaspoon to make the well, used a bit of frosting to keep the cherry in place, and put the remaining icing in a ziplock bag and drizzled the cookies before baking, and according to my super critical Hubby, they are simply awesome and must be included on the Holiday Cookie List! I did only get barely 2 dozen from the original recipe, will have to double or triple that in the future, and I did as other reviewers mentioned and halved the icing recipe and still had a bit leftover. Overall, I really like this recipe, the cookie portion alone I'm going to use and play with, add chocolate chunks and such, so thanks to Jamie for a great recipe!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Sep. 20, 2009
Chewy Crispy Coconut Cookies
My 5 yr old daughter wanted to make coconut cookies, so we found this recipe and decided to whip up a batch. And are we glad we did, they came out AWESOME! There were a few changes to the original recipe, didn't have cornflakes, subbed Rice Krispys, lightly crushed...and my 5 year old accidentally added another teaspoon of vanilla...she also insisted we toss in some semi-sweet chocolate chips, lol...With my pain in the butt tricky oven, they took about 12 min total for a nice golden brown edge, and are the promised crispy chewy cookie! My hubby is SUPER picky about cookies, and almost always has a critique of my baking, he said these were PERFECT! I give it 5 stars, even with my revisions, because without the original recipe, I'd have had nothing to play with! Thanks Melissa, awesome recipe and I'll be putting a copy in my permanent cookie recipe box.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jul. 19, 2009
Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
My 5 year old wanted to make Grandpa some chocolate chip cookies (as a bribe to paint her bedroom for her, lol) and we decided on this recipe, and success! I did of course make a few changes, lol...did 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar, 1/2 cup white...forgot to dissolve the baking soda in hot water, just added it to the flour and salt...added another half teaspoon vanilla to make up for the lost liquid...and all we had were pecans instead of walnuts...baked mine on parchment paper, and with my tricky oven, the batches took about 11 minutes total. These are REALLY really good cookies, crispy on the outside, chewy goodness on the inside. Might be a slight touch too sweet for some, I have a sweet tooth and these were boderline, I don't think decreasing the sugar a bit would hurt. Thank you Dora, for posting a great recipe that is infinitely adaptable to individual tastes!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jul. 9, 2009
 
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