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MICHELLE CASSELBERRY
 
Home Town: Rockford, Illinois, USA
Living In: Dexter, Missouri, USA
Member Since: Aug. 2004
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Slow Cooking, Italian, Southern, Dessert, Gourmet
Hobbies: Sewing, Biking, Walking, Fishing, Photography, Reading Books, Music, Wine Tasting
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Jeffery
Gerber Daisy lazy days
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Winter in Missouri
Here I am world!!
About this Cook
I'm married to a wonderful man, Jeffery, of 25, (just had and Anniversary Aug. 27th, yay!) years and counting. We have a beautiful daughter name Meghan Grace who is also 25 yrs of age and in the picture with me, she's the cute one! I love to cook for my family, love love love!!! I'm not big on quick and easy because if it's good, really good then it's worth the wait and my Family is worth the time! Nothing wrong with taking the time to create a meal. Alot of people want a meal in a box, we need to go back to good food and a sit down at the table meal for your family.
My favorite things to cook
I love Italian! Anything with pasta and a good "on the stove all day" red sauce or a good creme sauce. I love southern fried food. Chicken, mash potatoes and milk gravy made from the drippings, yummy! I love to cook on the grill, you name it I will try it. Bacon on the grill is great I also make my fried potatoes for breakfast on the grill. I do like to use the slow cooker in the fall and winter. It's nice to come home after work to a roast or homemade beef stew! Soul food, anything made with love!
My favorite family cooking traditions
Thanksgiving and me and my mother and daughter in the kitchen together preparing everything we all love for TG day. Turkey in the roaster, ham soaked in coca cola, moms homemade dressing from the turkey drippings, corn pudding, sweet potato casserole, green bean bacon wraps, etc. I could go on and on. I love the smell coming from the kitchen that time of year! I also love Halloween, my daugher, her boyfriend Kevin and my Husband and I love to carve pumpkins and after we clean them we roast pumpkin seeds we make cupcakes and decorate and we also have homemade pumpkin pie with LOTS of cool whip.
My cooking triumphs
Mastering fried chicken and milk gravy like my mother made when I was at home. Got it!!!!!!
My cooking tragedies
What tragedies!?! :) ha! There is always room for improvement that's why I didn't put Expert, because sometimes the bad happens, it's just life and we learn from our mistakes :)
Recipe Reviews 16 reviews
Italian Chicken Bow Tie Pasta
I've been making this dish for about 20 years. I like to cut my boneless skinless chicken breast into small cubes and brown in olive oil that I sauted couple of cloves of minced garlic in, dash of salt/pepper. I used a large can of drained diced tomatoes that I marinate in a mix of olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt pepper, garlic powder, sugar and tarragon. Once chicken & noodles done mix all ingredients together, taste, adjust seasonings if need be and spoon in bowl and top with fresh grated ramano cheese. This recipe, 3, add some spices and marinate those tomatoes, 5!!!

9 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Aug. 22, 2009
Roasted Chickpeas
I was really exicted to try these. I hadn't had chickpeas ever until about 8 months ago I tried them on a salad and their awesome. I had gotten an email from all recipes regarding this recipe and couldnt wait to try it. I looked at alot of the reviews and decided to bake at 300 for an hour as not to burn and they are a nice and toasty brown, but very chewing. I'm wondering if two tablespoons of olive oil is (two) much. If maybe thats why their not drying out well. I will try them one more time with less oil. I did pat dry, well and gently tossed the oil and spices (garlic salt, onion powder, seansoned salt, seasoned pepper, kosher salt and lemon pepper) together and placed on a nonstick foil lined cookie sheet, lo and slow, but not was I was hoping for.

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Aug. 16, 2009
Apple Breakfast Bread
This recipe is AWESOME!!! I did take some advice from another member who posted a rating: the 1 cup sugar-I changed to 1/2 cup white 1/2 cup brown. Added 2 tsp. of vegetable oil and I grated the apples. Baked at 325 for exactly one hour. FANTASTIC!!! Oh, there's a recipe called Apple cake and butter sauce, I made the butter sauce from that recipe to go with this, YUM NUMMY :) Thanks for a great recipe!!!

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 19, 2009
 
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