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phishgurl
 
Home Town: Shaftsburg, Michigan, USA
Living In: Boise, Idaho, USA
Member Since: May 2006
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Southern, Healthy, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Sewing, Hiking/Camping, Camping, Biking, Fishing, Hunting, Photography, Charity Work
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cranberry hootycreeks & ingredients
About this Cook
Born again, AWANA teacher/wife/mom. Two boys, 21 and 10. Very part-time student mostly, Administrative Assistant @ Boise State Univ. Plan to finish my LPN license eventually. Husband a carpenter for a small construction co. Hoping to see him semi-retire, go to school @ BSU.
My favorite things to cook
Idaho game, fish & wild fruit preserves;huckleberries & blackberries, bake bread, make cookies & pack lunches a lot. Portable components of holiday meals. Camping meals, pot luck dishes.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Smoked turkey, steak-on-a-stick, no-flour peanutbutter cookies. Gramma Jean's fruit salad. Mayo-basted baked salmon, soy/garlic almonds, Shane's amazing naked barbecued chicken thighs, pineapple-baked beans, Angel biscuits. sourdough pancakes. Clam stuffed mushrooms, green cornbread & elk chili. Guacamole & slow cooker roasted chicken.
My cooking triumphs
I recently tinkered around with a couple of recipes that came out well. Check them out on my recipe box. I've finally begun to be able to smoke pork ribs well.
My cooking tragedies
Bread that won't rise. burned peas, over-brined pork loin. ricekrispy treats that never set up (ate them anyway, messy but wicked-good) making chocolate truffles with a five-year old helper (messy but wicked-good.)
Recipe Reviews 18 reviews
Cranberry Streusel Pie
Top notch! Even my husband who doesn't approve of high-calorie desserts succumbe to this pie. I cut the sugar in half, substituting a 1/8 of a cut of Nu-Stevia, in both the cranberry filling and the steusel topping. Used pecans instead of walnuts. This is a KEEPER!

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Reviewed On: Nov. 15, 2009
Silver's Savory Chicken and Broccoli Casserole
Seems a pity to start with whole chicken breasts. This recipe s/REALLY/b all about using leftover roast chicken, leftover gravy and leftover cooked broccoli. That is what I used and it is a fine dish. I added 2/3 of the cheese to the leftover gravy wi/ enough fat free 1/2 & 1/2 to make a couple of cups of cheese sauce, to which I then added about a teaspoon of Franks hotsauce. Tasty. And economic, and a nice change from leftover roast chicken in soup, pot pie, or al la king.

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Reviewed On: Oct. 17, 2009
Mom's Zucchini Bread
Once again I tinkered so much that I'm not altogether sure what is mine and what is V. Monte's. It's a fine basic recipe. I altered it to use more zucc and dramatically less fat and suger (Nu-Stevia). Like any basically sound formula it stood up to this treatment and delivered a fine result. I've stashed my modification in myrecipes. It's too long to give here.

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Reviewed On: Sep. 7, 2009
 
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