Home Town:
Balls Falls,
Ontario,
Canada
Member Since:
Jun. 2008
Cooking Level:
Expert
Cooking Interests:
Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Slow Cooking, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Healthy, Quick & Easy
Hobbies:
Gardening, Camping, Photography, Painting/Drawing, Wine Tasting
Raised by English grandmother taught steak and kidney pie and Yorkshire pudding. moved on to foster Jewish/Polish foster home taught Chalah bread, Pierizki(pierogi) and Hummus, married Scottish and learned scones and spotted dick. Bartender/Food Beverage Manager for 10 years. Live in Texas now half the year picked up Tex/Mex. Totally mixed up!!!!!
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My favorite things to cook
using anything from my garden (nasturtium pesto anyone)
My favorite family cooking traditions
Grandmother was a gardener had no chance she put me in the garden at 2 years of age ate worms but I learned
My cooking triumphs
dinner for 16 by 11 years of age
canning. jamming, freezing, pickling (even beans) from the garden
dinner or appetizers at any time for who-ever drops by (I love the challenge)
My cooking tragedies
Alum not good for you my pickles miss the crispness
wrong cheese for pasta sauce (tasted sour)
deep fried turkey over cooked for group of 12