mrab
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Member Since: Apr. 2006
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Asian, Italian, Southern, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Hiking/Camping, Camping, Walking, Fishing, Reading Books, Music
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Cool & Refreshing Cataloupe drink
Cupcake Pops
  
Cupcake Pops
Fruit Skewers
Good Dog Cookies
About this Cook
With a Filipina mother & a Southern father, I grew up eating some really great food! I'll try *almost* any dish once. My husband and my son, however, are 2 picky eaters in a pod. Thank goodness for my daughter - she'll eat practically anything! My challenge is to find new foods that we can all enjoy and maybe something that will get the 2 guys in my life to step outside of their culinary comfort zone. :)
My favorite things to cook
Whether it's cookies, brownies or cake, I love baking! I especially like to bake treats as gifts.
My favorite family cooking traditions
My mom would pull out all the stops on Thanksgiving. Though it was only my mother, brother & I at home, we would always invite lots of friends over to celebrate and eat good food! Some of my fondest memories are of getting up early and helping mom in the kitchen. Now that I have a family of my own, I've started making the big family meals. I love it when my kids ask me to help out. I want them to have the same kind of happy memories in the kitchen that I do!
My cooking triumphs
Any time I get my kidlets to try something new; any time I master yet another Filipino dish from my childhood.
My cooking tragedies
When I was a child my mom had no problem with me experimenting in the kitchen (as long as I didn't burn the house down). A friend and I spent an afternoon creating "the perfect cookie". We threw in everything we thought sounded good - sugar, flour, vanilla, cinnamon & COPIOUS amounts of food coloring! When baked, they were floppy and were a curious shade of greenish gray with blue and red swirls throughout. We had a lot of fun watching our parents choke them down (they tasted like you just put a teaspoon of ground cinnamon in your mouth). But best of all, they BOUNCED!! Okay, so they weren't that great as cookies but at least we had a lot of fun balling them up and bouncing them on the kitchen floor!
Recipe Reviews 24 reviews
Aunt Bev's Famous Apple Pie
I'm not a fan of apple pie and so I have never made one, but my hubby wanted one for his b-day instead of cake. My pie plate is 9.5" so I was able to use up all of the 10 apples that I had (4 granny smith, 5 mcintosh, 1 fugi). The next time I make this pie, I will go with more granny smiths. I feel like they held up better after baking. I read all the reviews before trying and this is what I ended up doing: brushed the bottom crust whit egg white before filling (to prevent sogginess), doubled the spices, used 3 tbsp flour/3tbsp cornstarch & added a splash of vanilla to the apples. After 20 minutes of baking, I brushed the top crust with egg white and sprinkled with granulated sugar. Everyone who tried the pie loved it :)

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Nov. 4, 2009
Felix K.'s 'Don't even try to say these aren't the best you've ever eaten, because they are' Chocolate Chip Cookies
I'm not a raw cookie dough eater, but I had a hard time stopping myself from eating this dough so that I could have actual baked cookies to review! I had several bags of chips needing to be used up so I mixed white, semisweet & milk chocolate chips (about 1 1/2 cups total). Delicious!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Nov. 2, 2009
Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread
Delicious! I added chopped walnuts and raisins, tripled the spices & replaced 1/2 cup of oil with more pumpkin puree (instead of applesauce). I got 1 bundt and 36 mini muffins from this recipe. Will make again and again!

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Nov. 1, 2009
 
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