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SweetSweetSteph
 
Home Town: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Living In: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Member Since: Oct. 2007
Cooking Level: Professional
Cooking Interests: Baking, Asian, Mexican, Southern, Nouvelle, Vegetarian, Dessert, Quick & Easy
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About this Cook
I'm a new wife to a wonderful man and an unemployed pastry chef; so now, I enjoy attempting to be crafty, playing easily addictive flash games and dance like nobody's watching!
My favorite things to cook
I love cooking healthier versions of the dishes that remind me of growing up in the south. Whether it's mac and cheese, enchiladas, homemade biscuits & gravy or fresh from the oven cookies, I love making comfort foods and anything sweet!
My favorite family cooking traditions
My husband and I just got married last year and moved away from our family, so we're beginning our own traditions. So far, my favorites include making the x-mas cheesecake and my true love fruit salad for our spring cookout.
My cooking triumphs
I consider making it through Thanksgiving every year a triumph!
My cooking tragedies
Probably the worst thing I've ever made was my first attempt at tomato-leek soup. I had no recipe, research or plan of attack. It sounds like it would be hard to screw up, but I managed to turn unassuming veggies into an inedible disaster - what a messy, messy day in the kitchen that was.
Recipe Reviews 11 reviews
Refreshing Limeade
Just tried this and it's delicious! I didn't have fresh limes, so I used bottled lime juice and it's still really good (and I'm picky!) I used 6 tablespoons of bottled lime juice. Also, if you want a sparkling limeade, use club soda instead of water - yum!

8 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 17, 2010
Easy Apple Cinnamon Muffins
This recipe doesn't work! I wish people would rate the recipe as written!!! With the proper adjustments, it was 5 stars. If you make the batter as written, it is super dry! I substituted 1 & 1/2 cups of sara's homemade applesauce (from this site) for the chopped apples (this caused me to end up with 16 muffins.) Without this, this would have not have been moist at all. Also, reduce the sugar if you use sweetened applesauce and I'd reduce the flour to 1 cup and add only 3/4 cup of applesauce to make 12 regular sized muffins. I also had to adjust the temperature to 375 degrees so the muffins wouldn't burn before they could cook through. I also only cooked them for 18 minutes, then let them rest in the pan for 5 minutes to let residual cooking do the rest. The crumb mixture is also incorrect; I used 2 TBsp of butter, 1 TBsp of flour, 2 TBsp rolled oats, 1 TBsp sugar and 1/2 tsp cinnamon. This makes plenty of crumb mixture for 12 muffins. And ABSOLUTELY only fill the muffin tins 2/3 of the way, not completely full! The recipe as written is a disaster, but I gave it 2 stars based on the ease to manipulate it into something yummy!

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 26, 2010
Mushroom Salisbury Steak
I did not make in microwave, but either way the cornstarch gravy is off-putting and has an odd flavor. If you can make traditional gravy, do it! If not, you probably don't notice the difference. I made the patties, seared each side (3 mins) in a skillet then removed patties, added cornstarch/beef broth mix to the skillet, cooked until thickened, added the patties back to the gravy, reduced heat to low, covered and simmered 15 minutes. Overall, the recipe was basic to prepare and decent to eat, but the taste of the cornstarch just ruined it for me.

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 26, 2010
 
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