Member Since:
Sep. 2005
Cooking Level:
Intermediate
Cooking Interests:
Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Southern, Healthy, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies:
Scrapbooking, Sewing, Walking, Photography, Reading Books, Music, Painting/Drawing, Wine Tasting
I'm a mom. So cooking is sometimes rushed between getting from one activity to the next :)
My favorite things to cook
Chicken, especially the thighs and the livers (my favorite parts!) I love to play around with cheesecake recipes!
My favorite family cooking traditions
Once a week cleaning out the fridge and making 'something' with what you find there!
My cooking triumphs
I think I have the perfect way to bake cheesecake without any cracks! We've all heard how the water bath is the secret, but we all shy away from it because the foil always seems to leak. My boyfriend found a bargain last year at Thanksgiving...Turkey roasting bags, (see below), now I set my cheesecake in the bag, roll down the extra to the top of the cheesecake pan, set it in another pan, fill with water about 2/3 of the way up the cheesecake pan! No Cracks! Perfection!
My cooking tragedies
Ha! Those turkey bags he bought... he bought them to try to put the chicken into them and cook them on the grill... Heeheehee up in flames!