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JOANNADALE
 
Member Since: Feb. 2003
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Italian, Southern, Mediterranean, Healthy, Dessert
Hobbies: Reading Books, Music, Genealogy, Wine Tasting
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  • My Chili  
    By: Michelle
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  • This recipe has been rated 419 times with an average star rating of 4.6
About this Cook
I cook for my family. I have always loved cooking since I was small. I would watch all the public TV cook shows before there was Food Network. I love Jacque Pepin and his daughter when they cook together. When my child was a toddler, I might have bought a total of 6 baby food jars when he started to eat solids. I always made my own! His first food was cooked pumpkin I had stewed!
My favorite things to cook
I love to bake. I love to make anything with garlic.
My cooking tragedies
I just can't seem to get a handle on making homemade bread. I've tried using homemade sourdough starters, readymade yeast packets. I just can't get it. My last attempt ended up like 2 cake sized hockey pucks. I'll keep trying.
Recipe Reviews 25 reviews
Russian Tea Cakes I
Try using 1/2 butter and 1/2 shortening. Gives the cookie a more tender crumble. I use pecans. I usually roll in p.sugar as soon as possible out of the oven, then again once I'm done rolling it the 1st time and then letting them cool totally and rolling a 3rd time. YUM!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 18, 2009
Clone of a Cinnabon
Fabulous! I took some ideas of previous reviewers. Mixed the butter/brown sugar/cinnamon and then warmed a bit in the microwave to make easier to spread over the dough. I made them much smaller than 12. I think I ended up with 28 rolls but then I rolled the dough out much bigger than 16x21. I lined 3 round cake pans with parchment. And then after placing in the pans, put in the fridge (covered) to bake in the morning in a cold oven and set temp to 350 baked for 30 min (probably should have taken them out at 25 but it was my first time making them). Took them to the office and wham they were gone. :) 2/22/09 update: I think I will modify the recipe to a King Cake for Mardi Gras. Instead of cutting them into rolls, I will just bring the ends around. Might need to make 2 rings since they rose so much. Then add colored sugar on top of the frosting.

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Reviewed On: Jan. 21, 2009
Chuck's Favorite Mac and Cheese
Very good mac & cheese. I do admit I had to sub some stuff because I didn't have it on hand but even with the substitutions it was great. I used 4 oz sharp cheddar, 4 oz velveeta, no cottage cheese (didn't have any) but used 1 egg instead, and used ritz crackers (about 10) on top. Plus I food processed all the cheeses with the egg and sour cream (great idea whoever said that!) De-Lish!

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Reviewed On: Jan. 21, 2009
 
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