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Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Maple Valley, Washington, USA
Living In: Mercer Island, Washington, USA
About me:
I travel alot, have three homes in sunny locations. I am an avid golfer and work out alot. This is to keep up with my intake of calories from cooking and eating out frequently. I have gone to cooking classes for 23 years including some certificate series. I have six children who are all out of the house.

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MrsSnak 

Cooking Level: Intermediate
Home Town: Stockton, California, USA
Living In: Maple Valley, Washington, USA
About me: I am a stay at home wife with the unfortunate curse of having a full time job! :)
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Sunshyne99 

Cooking Level: Expert
Home Town: San Jose, California, USA
Living In: Maple Valley, Washington, USA
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Home Town: Newark, Delaware, USA
Living In: Maple Valley, Washington, USA
About me: I Love to be in my kitchen cooking or baking. Cooking is my stress reliever. I love making my family and friends happy with my cooking/baking. They always call me ahead of time…
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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 4.67 star rating.

Rosemary Ranch Chicken Kabobs

Reviewed on Jul. 7, 2009 by Starlet 
AWESOME!!! Super easy, uses ingredients typically on hand and YUMMY! I prefer brown sugar for the (optional) white, it caramellizes better on the grill. I now also increase ranch to 1/4 cup and do as another reviewer suggested, make 2 separate batches and marinate chicken in one, and for the other, I micro 2 red potatoes 3mins each, cut in about 2"chunks, marinate with onion chunks and whole mushrooms. If you do this, do chicken and veg on separate skewers cause the veg ones are done a few minutes quicker and 'shrooms would be burnt if it was all skewered together. This is now one of my absolute FAVORITE dinners! THANKS SO MUCH!!!
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Grilled Peaches and Cream

Reviewed on Jun. 3, 2009 by Starlet 
AWESOME!!! I did 2 peaches, skipped the oil but sprinkled w/cinnamon sugar and pumpkin pie spice and refrigerated about an hour before grilling. Had about 1/4 tub of lo-fat cream cheese... poured honey into tub, micro 30 sec, poured chopped pecans in and it all mixed easily with a fork, then refrigerated an hour. It came out FANTASTIC! On hot summer days I try to make as many full meals as I can without turning on the stove or oven and this was the perfect ender. Will make again FOR SURE!
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Southwestern Burgers

Reviewed on Jun. 2, 2009 by Starlet 
I hate to be the one dissenter, but these were just OK for us... I liked them better than the BF did... He later refered to them as 'nasty' but I think that was a bit harsh, but have you ever heard of a burger a man didn't devour? This one went over like a lead balloon. I do however think this recipe could be salvaged, but don't know if I'll try again, might not be worth the comments from the peanut gallery =) Anyhow, I think the main problem I had with it is WAY too much cumin in the sauce... And cumin is one of my FAVE spices, so if I'm saying that, the flavor is WAY strong... I kind of had my doubts about the proportions when I was making it but thought for once in my life I'd make something as written with no adjustments... Next time I'll trust my gut... Did, however, turn the sauce into a loveley SW vinagrette for a great salad the next night, so it wasn't a complete failure =)
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