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ebrooke
 
Home Town: Conway, South Carolina, USA
Living In: Seattle, Washington, USA
Member Since: Dec. 2005
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Slow Cooking, Southern, Healthy, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Biking, Walking, Reading Books, Music
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About this Cook
Living in Seattle, with two dogs and a sweet man. We enjoy cooking together and plan 80% of our meals with All Recipes contributions.
My favorite things to cook
Recipes with zest, literally: orange, lemon, etc. and recipes that use fresh herbs from the front or back yard (basil, terragon, rosemary, lavendar, chocolate mint). But I like to eat anything fried...
My favorite family cooking traditions
Southern casseroles, steak night, tomato sandwiches, sunday pot roast, triple-decker pineapple sandwiches, peach cobbler, sweet potato souffle, green bean casserole, biscuits. Now I'm hungry.
My cooking triumphs
Apple pie (w/homemade crust), zucchini brownies, and winter roasted veggies with chicken (a dinner party classic).
My cooking tragedies
Never being able to replicate my grandmother's homemade buttermilk biscuits, even when she stood beside me and talked me through it. I'm missing the x-factor, her personal biscuit magic.
Recipe Reviews 3 reviews
Zucchini Brownies
Oh man, these are fantastic. Trust the recipe my cooking friends. A word of advice, follow the recipe and you will get moist, chocolatey perfection. I've been getting rave reviews from family and co-workers. They can't believe there are no eggs and that there's zucchini in these puppies. I used a giant zucchini from our garden, which made exactly 4 cups (shredded). I'm going to shred more zucchini as it comes in to freeze so that I can make these in the winter. Yum. These make me happy.

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Reviewed On: Aug. 11, 2009
Mushroom Orzo
Terrific recipe. We made it straight from Barbarclay's recipe the first night and it was so good we made it again as a side dish for the next night. Sub'd in regular onion, added 1 cup of chicken broth, and we didn't have white wine so we used 1/4 cup sherry and mixed water in for the 1/2 cup white wine. it was even better this time. I've added this recipe to our standard line-up. Well done!

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Reviewed On: Jun. 14, 2009
Tarragon Lover's Scallops
Fantastic flavor, the recipe was easy to make and the results were delicious. As another user suggested, we didn't wipe the pan in order to keep the brown butter/olive oil taste. We served it with saffron risotto. I highly recommend this recipe for dinner parties or a weeknight dinner, the prep and cooking time was fast (15 minutes start to finish).

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Reviewed On: Jun. 2, 2009
 
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