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BakingBot
 
Home Town: Sacramento, California, USA
Member Since: Jul. 2004
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Italian, Healthy, Dessert, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Gardening, Hiking/Camping, Reading Books
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About this Cook
I am a recent law school graduate and procrastinate through cooking. When I was younger, I abhorred cooking and would exchange the chore for cleaning the bathroom. However, since early undergrad I have been teaching myself to cook and it is now one of my favorite pastimes. Whether cooking birthday cakes and holiday treats or gourmet dishes for elaborate dinner parties, I value how food brings people together. Allrecipes has been my #1 resource.
My favorite things to cook
Yeast breads, cakes, cookies, casseroles, pastas, stir fry, french fries, and the occasional new dish (yeast cinnamon rolls and breads, toffee, pheasant, crepes, crab bisque, etc.) I'm branching out into Indian food.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Family dinners came with a game of dominoes. My dad is a commercial fisherman, so I was raised on delicious seafood dishes, including my mom's fab recipes for BBQ salmon, Cioppino, and shrimp scampi. Also, I associate powdered sugar crescent cookies, red-velvet (Waldorf) cake, and layered avocado bean dip with Christmas, and homemade peach ice cream with summer. There is also the family joke that Mom always forgets something in her cornbread.
My cooking triumphs
My first time cooking with yeast: amazing homemade cinnamon rolls. Also, making hard candy and toffee using a candy thermometer. Two delectable tres leche cakes. Recently, chicken korma.
My cooking tragedies
During one of my first times cooking as a 4th grader, I was simply following my mom's directions without a clear idea of what I was cooking. I had 2 pots on the stove: one with ground beef and one with hot water. She told me to put the jar of sauce in a pan, and with my 9-year-old logic, I determined that because one pot already had stuff(meat) in it, and the other only water, I should dump the sauce in the boiling water, and proceeded to do so. I soon found out I was cooking spaghetti. While baking with an ex I forgot the sugar in sugar cookies.
Recipe Reviews 274 reviews
Grilled Bell Peppers with Goat Cheese
Very good. I didn't have lemon pepper, so I just used pepper. It's missing *something.* Other seasonings - cajun, etc. - would also go well on it. I did not have a grill, so used a George Foreman Grill.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Feb. 4, 2012
Chocolate Decadence Cake I
Much too much. I love chocolate, but this was almost like eating slices of gooey fudge. I had to cook it much longer than called for and evern then I questioned whether it was truly cooked. Would be good to cut into small squares and place in mini sized cupcake cups for bite sized tasting.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Feb. 2, 2012
Chocolate Banana Cream Pie
The base cream layer did not congeal properly, despite following the recipe's instructions exactly. I had to add additional corn starch. The chocolate layer likewise de-congealed in the fridge after a 5 hours in the fridge. Would not make again.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 29, 2012
 
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