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Ninacooks
 
Home Town: Norco, California, USA
Living In: Riverside, California, USA
Member Since: Feb. 2005
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Grilling & BBQ, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Southern, Gourmet
Hobbies: Hiking/Camping, Camping, Boating, Walking, Fishing, Music
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NinaandCraig
About this Cook
My husband and I love to cook and entertain. We go to glamis in winter- lake mojave in summer. Shallots and garlic, bbq sauce and beer. From artichokes to zuchini this website helps me cook well and gives SUCH good planned dinner options it's ridiculous. ENJOY!
My favorite things to cook
Roasts, artichokes, pots of beans, my beef or pork ribs, etc. Fruit salsas, Craigs fish, salsa, veggie and shrimp tempura, omg, list goes on...
My favorite family cooking traditions
Shallots. We use lots of shallots and butter. Also like roasts browned or rubbed in lots of seasonings. I can finally make potatoe salad, think I'll post my recipe.
My cooking triumphs
Mastering the artichoke, potatoe salad, etc. My husband makes a wonderful halibut with shallot, olive olil, soy sauce mixture. BBQ while brushing with the shallot, garlic butter mixture. OMG >>> FO! LMTY.
My cooking tragedies
My first potato salad wouldn't even blend, in a blender... Also, my husband miserably failed at chicken "cocka" mole one time. No more mole. I cannot bbq, but my husband is the master, I just do the dirty prep - and clean.
Recipe Reviews 5 reviews
Lime Chicken Soft Tacos
Quick, easy, tasty! Suprisingly, Incredibly tasty. Therefore, 5 STARS HERE! I used lots of fresh cilantro instead of oregano too and ended up doubling my sauce. I was looking for a chicken taco recipe, thought I'd end up roasting chile's, prepping and cooking all day. Glad I spared myself. I'm thinking this would make a great base for tequila lime chicken fettucine too. Thank you and no wonder the reviews keep coming. I'm going to try hard corn shell with this too. I raved to my hubby for days.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Aug. 22, 2009
Roast Sticky Chicken-Rotisserie Style
I made this on Sunday, cut it back to one chicken and followed rub recipe with with the exception of cayenne because I forgot to pick some up. Stuffed the peeled onion inside as recommended and only had 2 hours to let it sit in fridge. The onion helped the chicken stay put on the rotisserie rod. I baked at 250 in a convection oven on a rotisserie rod for about 4 hours with a small pan of chicken broth under it to catch drippings. BOY WAS IT MOIST & DELICIOS. I used the broth to boil some red potatoes and they were NUM NUM. I'll let the chicken marinate longer next time and will add the cayenne. This was my first rotisserie style chicken and I outdid myself with the help of this recipe. I didn't find it too salty however I didn't eat the skin. Everyone can cook if they know about allrecipes.com, love it.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 19, 2009
Korean BBQ Short Ribs (Gal-Bi)
I am updating review... I now LOVE it. Versatile like no other. I was searching for an easy crockpot (quick version is to simmer in pot on stove) recipe for beef ribs for two people. I didn't have time to let them marinate. I didn't have sesame oil and I used olive oil, eyeballed all other ingredients. I slow cooked them for about 5 hours (2 hours for simmering, be sure to use onion & garlic if nothing else) and they were about to fall apart. We threw them on the bbq and used Pappy's White Lightning bbq sauce from Bass Pro Shop. YUM! The ribs were so tender, so tasty even before we put the bbq sauce on. You might not need oil if you are slow cooking this as my ribs were already fatty, but I won't take anything away from this simple and flexible recipe. We used to bake our ribs before bbq but my husband wants me to do them this way from now on. THANK YOU!

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Sep. 29, 2008
 
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