Hezzy_tant_Cook
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Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Southern, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Knitting, Walking, Photography, Reading Books, Painting/Drawing
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Jan. 22, 2012 10:15 am 
Updated: Feb. 4, 2012 4:15 pm
When my DH presented me (as in gifted me) a KA recently, I decided I would need to give it a name in true AR fashion. I told him I was trying to come up with one, when, because it is gun-metal grey, he suggested we call her The Iron Lady (because of the Meryl Streep film of the same name).… MORE
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From The Blog:  Chopsticks in the Kitchen
Pizza Crust Fantastico
The Iron Lady
January blog
AR Peppermint Mergingues
Pinwheel Cookies
  
Candy Cane Fudge
Sweetened Condensed Milk
Thimble Cookies
Grilled Chipotile Sweet Potatoes
About this Cook
Cooking for two, usually...sometimes for four. An email addy is: hezzy_tant_cook@yahoo.com Though, this is not accessed daily.
My favorite things to cook
Breads are simply amazing, don't you think? Anyway, Atkins and I could never have gotten on well. // Update. Still think breads are amazing, but am trying to avoid the less complex ones for a time.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Thanksgiving meals are the best. Food and family/friends...what could be better than that?
My cooking triumphs
I like precision cooking, as far as ingredients goes. That can be a problem, though, when suddenly you need to set another plate. // Update. Still like precision purchases, but am trying to accommodate for "walk-ins".
My cooking tragedies
1.Have you ever put macaroni into a slow cooker soup and let it cook until it becomes mush? Don't. 2.Baked b'day cake for MIL's first visit, and it fell apart. FIL, man of few words, generally, responsed to my embarrassed apologies, "It's been my experience that the worse they look, the better they taste." And he just about ate himself sick to prove his point!
Recipe Reviews 92 reviews
Pizza Crust Fantastico
Having read the other reviewer's comments, I resorted to using 1 heaping T. tomato paste instead of the more liquid tomato "sauce" listed; even then, the dough was quite wet. That is not the reason I rated this a three, however. I used a preheated pizza stone and just was not impressed with the lack of airy-ness...crispiness in the final product. My SIL and DH both liked it, however, as it was. This is not going to be my "go to" recipe, but by reducing the liquid, it might be yours.

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Reviewed On: Jan. 29, 2012
Sweetened Condensed Milk
Only change was methodology. I melted my butter in a glass saucepan in microwave, then added the boiling water and the pre-measured sugar and powder milk. Whisked to combine and kept stirring until sugar and milk powder was all well dissolved. Ingredients were as written. Measured in grams for the dry and ended up with 12 oz. (375 ml) sweetened condensed milk.

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Reviewed On: Dec. 17, 2011
Thimble Cookies
These were fun to make. I had to come up with a sub for the walnuts (as I am allergic to tree nuts). I used finely chopped peanuts/flaked coconut/ and crushed Crispix cereal for the coating. I also put a chocolate chip in the center of each after five minutes of baking, but I think the lemon/raspberry flavor would be better (Gasp!!) without the chocolate. I DO like the coconut being in the crunchy coating, though. We'll do these again. Oh...I also like the relatively short list of ingredients and how these "present". Very pretty cookies.

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Reviewed On: Sep. 8, 2011
 
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