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BrownSugar
 
Home Town: Morgan Hill, California, USA
Living In: Calistoga, California, USA
Member Since: Jun. 2004
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Slow Cooking, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Mediterranean, Healthy, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies: Hiking/Camping, Walking, Photography, Music, Wine Tasting
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Applesauce Bread
Hiking at Muir Woods
Banana Bread I
About this Cook
I love to cook, improvise on recipes and try new exciting things. Just moved with an ex-chef and becoming a sous chef, am no longer a housewife cook as he put it.
My favorite things to cook
Poultry, beef, pork and certain sweets that I've never tried before. I'm always looking for slow cooker meals, especially now that gas prices are rising and electricity is still cheap.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Making tamales, stuffed portobella mushrooms, my grilled turkey breast for Thanksgiving, and have recently added a allrecipes Pumpkin Cheesecake to my Thanksgiving repetoire.
My cooking triumphs
Perfected my mom's tamale recipe. Made braised short ribs/beef bourgignon with my roommate's guidance, it was the best meal I had this year. Better than the braised ribs I had at "Cook" in St. Helena.
My cooking tragedies
Once, when I was in Italy, I tried to make a shrimp with peas pasta meal, have been afraid to try it again ever since. Don't think it helped that I had consumed copious amounts of wine. Tried making duck for Christmas dinner this past year for BF and myself. I should have made chicken instead. So not worth the price I paid for the duck!
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Applesauce Bread
Found this recipe to be quite good & moist. I wanted to lower the calories and fat content, so I made changes, doubled the recipe first. I used half sugar:half twin sugar substitute, half a cup of butter instead of 2/3, used 1 tsp. more cinnamon and 1.5 tsp of vanilla extract, and half the amount of raisins and no nuts. Almost forgot I used a cup of whole wheat flour to up the fiber content.

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Reviewed On: Jan. 25, 2009
Parmesan Focaccia Bread
It was a good focaccia recipe, just thought it could have used something more. I don't have a bread machine, so I used my KitchenAide to knead the dough, about 2 minutes. I started the yeast prior to adding it to flour. Used one active yeast packet, .25 oz, for this recipe. Wanted a flatter focaccia so I cut the dough in half and used 2 pans. Will probably add an extra t. salt, more rosemary and add some garlic. Overall a good recipe, maybe my next time will be better.

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Reviewed On: Jan. 18, 2009
Pumpkin Cheesecake in a Gingersnap Crust
I love this recipe! I love the subtle pumpkin taste, but decided to go with graham cracker crust instead of gingersnap. I made this recipe last Thanksgiving and used honey instead of maple syrup as I didn't have any. It was great! So this year, I'm trying to cut some calories out and am experimenting with the recipe. I made the following changes: 2 pkgs of 1/3 less fat cream cheese and 1 pkg non fat, 3 eggs instead of 4 and 1 tsp. cinnamon instead of 3/4 tsp. as I was out of allspice. Also threw in 1 tsp. cinnamon to the graham cracker crust, as I was mixing it up. The result was a light creamy pumpkin cheesecake. It firmed up nicely overnight, and now have less than half sitting in the fridge only 12 hours after it was originally made. Three people did that damage, FYI. It has been requested at this year's Thanksgiving dinner as a prerequisite for attendence. Please note that the addition of pumpkin and cream allow for this cheesecake to be lighter, and even when one is using regular cream cheese it will not be as densed as regular New York Cheesecake, IMHO.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Sep. 21, 2008
 
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