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CHELLENE
 
Home Town: Stow, Ohio, USA
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Member Since: Mar. 2000
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Asian, Italian, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Gardening, Hiking/Camping, Camping
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About this Cook
I grew up in a multi-cultural home. My mom is Korean and my step-dad is half Italian. So I grew up eating all kinds of cuisine. I am happily married with two young sons and hope they will grow up with fond memories of what mom made in the kitchen. My oldest son loves to help in the kitchen. My youngest loves to help make a mess.
My favorite things to cook
I love to bake. Whether it's cookies, cakes, any type of dessert. I'm a sweets girl and I love to make them. I think I get this from my step-dad's mom. Gramma D. was a great baker and grew up in a family of great bakers and cooks. I think some of that rubbed off on me.
My favorite family cooking traditions
The two biggest cooking influences are my mom, who is the cook of cooks. And Gramma D. I know every person probably thinks their mother is the best cook. However, my mom has picked up the ability to master various ethnic foods, whether Korean, Italian or simple American dishes. And I love how my Korean family makes so much food...and must share it. Koreans are very generous and love to share their cuisine with others. I enjoy sitting around a table and having small side dishes here and there that everyone can try. We all use our chopsticks in the same bowls. No one cares. Also, Koreans cook to heal. They make seaweed soup for nursing mothers and pear juice for congestion. As for my gramma D. She used to always make cookies, tarts and pizzels for Christmas. I carried on the cookie-baking, but don't ask me to make a pizzel.
My cooking triumphs
Figuring out to make a beautiful and absolutely delicious cheesecake. The task was to make it without the top cracking and when I achieved this, I was so thrilled.
My cooking tragedies
Too numerous to mention.
Recipe Reviews 44 reviews
Delicious Ham and Potato Soup
Outstanding recipe and perfect for a cold, winter day. I doubled the recipe and added a can of cream of chicken soup since I had no bouillon. I needed to add some extra salt and may need to add more milk to it since it's gets thicker as it sits. This is a keeper. I'm sure I'll be making this again.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 29, 2012
Cindy's Pumpkin Pie
Why buy pumpkin pie when you can make this? Such an easy pie to make and so delicious. I followed some other reviewers' recommendations: I melted the ice cream in the microwave until WARM. I used room temp eggs and I forgot to de-thaw the frozen pie crusts (took a short cut and chose not to make home-made crusts) so I put the crusts in the pre-heated oven for a couple minutes to quickly de-thaw them. Be careful they don't start baking if you do this though. :-) I added about a teaspoon of vanilla and cut the sugar to 1/2 cup. I don't think I added enough nutmeg or maybe I just like a little more nutmeg flavor in my pumpkin pie. I will probably increase the amount of nutmeg next time. All in all, delicious. My family enjoyed it and I think this will be a new tradition for me.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Nov. 25, 2011
Oven-Fried Pork Chops
Delicious. I haven't been cooking a lot lately and my family enjoyed these immensely. My husband liked them so much that he said he didn't know who cooked because it couldn't have been his wife. Nice. Anyway, thanks for the recipe. It made a wonderful dinner with red-skinned baked potato sections and seasoned, cooked carrots.

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Sep. 19, 2011
 
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