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SANDY0225
 
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Living In: Muncie, Indiana, USA
Member Since: Jan. 2004
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Mexican, Southern, Mediterranean, Healthy, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies: Gardening
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About this Cook
I operate a retail greenhouse business and mail order webstore from my home, Northern Tropics Greenhouse, 1501 East Fuson Road, Muncie, IN 47302. My website is www.northerntropics.com if you're interested in checking it out. We specialize in heirloom vegetables and tropical and tropical looking flowering and foliage plants. Especially bananas! I love those large tropical leaves... I'm a mother of four, a master gardener-- and a vendor at the Minnetrista Farmers Market in Muncie, IN. I love to grow and cook with heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and other veggies that I grow. I don't always have a lot of time to cook in the summer, but I make up for that in the winter!
My favorite things to cook
Anything using heirloom tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, garlic, onions, and tomatillos. I haven't purchased onions, garlic, or tomato products from a store in years. I can and freeze all my own veggies for winter use.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Canning, cooking breakfast on Saturday mornings in the winter time. Growing lettuce in the greenhouse and eating it in the winter.
My cooking triumphs
My daughters graduation cake turned out great!
My cooking tragedies
Too many to mention, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. You can always try again!!!
Recipe Reviews 60 reviews
Danish Potato Soup
I made the soup as written, and it was a little bland. So I heated up 2 cups of water to boiling and in it I cooked 1 large onion, chopped, 5 cloves of homegrown garlic, minced, 1 teaspoon of ham base, and 1 turnip cut into small cubes. I cooked all this together and added to the soup, heated it all back up and then it was like a 5 star soup.

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Reviewed On: Jan. 18, 2012
Baked French Fries I
Baked bar be que chicken and these fries were an awesome combo. I grow my own garlic so I used crushed fresh garlic instead of powder. We baked these along with the chicken at 350 instead of 400, and baked them for an hour, flipping once.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 16, 2012
Baked Bar-be-que Chicken
This was simply awesome. The chicken was tender and flavorful and the bbq was cooked on for just long enough to get browned. Yummy with baked french fries I and an ear of corn from the freezer. Thanks for sharing!

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Reviewed On: Jan. 16, 2012
 
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