FROGHOPPER
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Living In: Bemidji, Minnesota, USA
Member Since: Mar. 2004
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Mexican, Italian, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Gardening, Camping, Walking, Fishing, Reading Books, Music
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Oct. 26, 2009 11:54 am 
Updated: Oct. 27, 2009 8:44 pm
My little boy has become known for his long, fuzzy, curly hair. He has been mistaken for a "precious little girl" serveral times. Still, I could not bring myself to cut off his culrs I love so much! Well, the other day Parker put on his camo hat and I was amazed by the resemblance! I realized… MORE
Parker rocks the fuzzy hair.
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Parker B4 his 1st hair cut.
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This was my 1st attemt at cutting hair - I was so nervous!
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First hair cut!!
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Tags:  Family
 
From The Blog:  The Little Frog That Cooked
Ava eating "Italian Spaghetti Sauce with Meatballs"
Parker eating "Itailian Spaghetti Sauce with Meatballs"
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Ava and Parker with their pumpkins
Jason's pumpkin
My pumpkin
About this Cook
I'm 28, married to a great guy, have 2 wonderful kids, and a cat. My favorite thing to do is hang out with my kids. I also love to try new recipes. I work as a lab tech.
My favorite things to cook
I love to cook mexican dishes. I would cook more Italian dishes too, but my husband is not a big fan of Pasta - there's something wrong with him I think! Not much of a baker - I'm a bit afriad of it. I can do 2 pies and 1 cookie very well but beyond that - yikes!!!
My favorite family cooking traditions
When I was young, at leat once a year all my family on my mom's side would pack into my grandparents little house and have "Uffda Tacos" AKA fry bread tacos. Everyone brought 1 ingredient. They got the name "Uffda Tacos" because my grandpa (who is an old Norweigien)would always unbuckle his belt and say "Uffda" when he was finished. My grandpa has since passed on and now my family is spread across the country, but that will always be one of my favorite memories.
My cooking triumphs
Anytime I make something new and my husband says he likes it.
My cooking tragedies
My grandma use to make the best home made bread ever. She never used a recipe. I decided that I would find a recipe for bread and make it on my own. It didn't rise ay all. So I tried again, and again it didn't rise. My spirit was broken (fragile teenager spirit). It took about 15 years but I finally tried working with yeast again and have found success! I have not been able to recreate my grandma's bread tho.
Recipe Reviews 125 reviews
Italian Spaghetti Sauce with Meatballs
I made a couple chages to this recipe after tasting it an hour into simmering. I thought it was tasting way too tomatoey so I added 2 TBLS brown sugar and 2 tsp itailan style seasoning. That did the trick. So the changes I made from the beginning were: I used brown surgar instead of white. I pureed the tomatoes, I didn't have tomatoe paste so I used an 8 oz can of roasted garlic tomatoe sauce and 3 TBLS of oats that I blended with the tomatoes to thicken the sauce. I followed the meatballs exactly and they had such a great aroma but kind of lacked in taste. I will play around with more spices the next time I make this. As written this recipe is a 3 or 4, with the changes I made I would give it 5 stars.

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Reviewed On: Nov. 2, 2009
Simple White Cake
I was not very impressed by this cake. It definitely is not sweet, it is very dry also. I followed the recipe exactly.

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Reviewed On: Oct. 26, 2009
Exquisite Pizza Sauce
I followed the recipe exactly except I did not use the optional anchovy sauce. I thought it was wonderful, I kept eating all by itself before I used it in my recipe. This is truely an Exquisite Pizza Sauce!

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Reviewed On: Oct. 26, 2009
 
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