Trinka G
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Home Town: San Antonio, Texas, USA
Living In: Petersburg, Texas, USA
Member Since: Mar. 2006
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Indian, Nouvelle, Mediterranean, Healthy, Kids
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Knitting, Gardening, Hiking/Camping, Camping, Biking, Walking, Reading Books, Music, Painting/Drawing, Wine Tasting
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Chicken and Ham Cesserole
About this Cook
Growing up with a dad who is an archaeologist, I have lived in Central America, England, the Midwest and finally Texas. I have been a flight attendant since 1992 for Southwest Airlines and have my bachelor's degree in British Literature from the University of Texas - HOOK 'EM HORNS! I have two beautiful children and we live out in the country on a 220-acre cotton farm. My husband and I own the local newspaper that comes out once a week and I have a recipe column in it that I share my favorite recipes. I try to share easy recipes to show folks that healthy cooking from scratch doesn't have to be a complicated process.
My favorite things to cook
I love to bake my family's bread - English muffins, white bread, whole wheat, rye, cinnamon rolls, etc., etc. I have a great weakness for Indian food - I absolutely adore curries. My family (even the 13-month old) gobbles them up whenever I cook them. I also love to cook comfort foods - chicken soup, rice pudding, chili, pot roast...I have lots of happy memories that involve food when growing up and want to create those same types of memories for my brood.
My favorite family cooking traditions
I started cooking when I was 9 years old. That summer, my mom let me make out the menu for Tuesday night supper, figure out the grocery list and then go grocery shopping for my dinners. It was a great experience and I was quite an accomplished cook by the time I graduated from high school. Most girls know how to bake but cooking everyday meals has proved elusive for many women and in the end, I think many a woman has poisoned her family and killed her husband through her cooking skills or lack thereof! My 5-year old daughter can already fix egg salad and helps with many tasks in the kitchen. My goal for both children is to have them walk out of the door proficient in their cooking skills when they head off for college.
My cooking triumphs
People love my cinnamon rolls as well as my orange breakfast rolls. I love working with yeast and have fun experimenting with it!
My cooking tragedies
Can't think of anything too disasterous right off the top of my head. I know there are times that things aren't as great as they could be, but an absolute cooking tragedy, I can't think of one besides nearly burning the apartment down while steaming a cauliflower and letting it go dry one time...the smell of burnt cauliflower is something that lingers on forever...
Recipe Reviews 57 reviews
No Bake Cookies II
YUM! I made them almost as stated - I did put the cocoa powder in the pan and cooked it along with the butter, sugar, and milk just because I didn't read the directions all the way through - and they still turned out perfect! Wouldn't change a thing about these cookies! Do make sure you get your mixture to a big old rolling boil before you set your timer for a minute and they will set up just fine!

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Oct. 16, 2009
Kalamata Pork Tenderloin with Rosemary
Wonderful entree! I made this tonight using boneless pork chops - didn't bother pounding them thin - just cooked them like I always do which is to brown them on the stove top in a cast iron dutch oven over med hi heat in a little olive oil, once browned, toss about 1/2 c water in the pan, slap a lid on, turn the heat down to Lo and let them cook for an hour - tender everytime! Once they were through, I removed them from the pan, made the sauce and voila! A fantastic supper that the whole family enjoyed!

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Oct. 4, 2009
Chocolate Cut Out Cookies
An awesome recipe AS IS!! After reading the reviews, I starting tweaking the recipe with disasterous results. Because I was making this for a back-to-school special for the local Kindergarten teacher, I had to make them again. This time I followed the directions as written and they came out perfect. Things I did do were: used the 3 (large)eggs, reduced the vanilla to 1 tsp, and really packed the flour into the measuring cup - usually I spoon the flour but didn't in this case. 10 Tbsp of cocoa is just a hair over 2/3 c so I put in the 2/3 c of cocoa. The dough came out perfect - even tho we didn't mix in all of the flour and cocoa powder in the end - this is because my son turned the mixer on high just after I added some of the flour mixture and blew brown powder all over the kitchen - so I may have been lacking 1/4 c of that mixture, I am not sure! I did sift 1/3 c cocoa powder and 1/3 c powdered sugar together and used that to flour my rolling surface. 10 minutes baked on parchment paper made absolutely beautiful and perfect cookies. A definite keeper of a recipe with the results tasting like Nabisco's Famous Chocolate Wafers!

4 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Aug. 23, 2009
 
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