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Heather
 
Home Town: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Living In: Delaware, Ohio, USA
Member Since: Nov. 2005
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Asian, Italian, Southern, Healthy, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Sewing, Gardening, Hiking/Camping, Biking, Walking, Photography, Music, Charity Work
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About this Cook
Love to try new recipes and tweak others for my picky family. Some of my experiments don't always turn out, but I have fun trying them anyway.
My favorite things to cook
I'm best at desserts, but I also like to make pad thai and love to try new ways to cook chicken.
My favorite family cooking traditions
We don't have many traditions per se but I'm glad I was brought up to cook things from scratch. I'll occasionally doctor up convenience items for the sake of time, but I like that I can do things the homemade way.
Recipe Reviews 30 reviews
Raspberry and White Chocolate Roll
The only reason I'm giving this a two is because I really like the filling. But I will never make this dessert again. I took the meringue out of the oven after 10 minutes like the recipe states, and couldn't get the parchment paper to come off. It kept ripping the meringue which I finally noticed wasn't even cooked all the way. I manuevered it back onto the pan and baked it another 10 minutes, which only helped a tad. The filling was so thick after adding the chocolate that trying to spread it over the meringue only made it rip further. It was easy to roll, but the filling was coming out of all the cracks. When I opened it to eat it, it let out a smell like a container full of deviled eggs an the meringue was kind of soggy in spots. It seems to me that it would be easier to make an angel food-based jelly roll and then use this filling. I won't even bother to attempt the meringue part of this again, it's not worth the waste of my time and ingredients.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jun. 2, 2011
Polka Dots
I couldn't rate these a five because I don't like white chocolate and therefore didn't make this recipe as written, but I chopped up York Peppermint Patties instead and got rave reviews on these. I would definitely use parchment paper for these and err on the side of caution with the time. I also noticed that these spread differently depending on which brand of brownie mix you use. When I used Duncan Hines mix they spread really flat and crispy and only needed 8 minutes to bake. Pillsbury brownie mix resulted in a puffier cookie that needed about 9 minutes to bake and came off the cookie sheet easier....another reason I couldn't quite rate these a 5, the recipe is not consistent. Not a fault of the poster, just a matter of fact based on my making them two times with different brands of product.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jun. 2, 2011
Bar-B-Que Sauce
I made this exactly as written and thought it was great. Sweet and a little hot all at the same time. I had some extra meatballs in the freezer that I wanted to defrost and cook for dinner, but was out of my usual sauce ingredients, and this was a great replacement. Not only will I make this again, but I like knowing that it's full of normal ingredients unlike some of the things in bottled bbq sauce.

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Mar. 11, 2011
 
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