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notoriousJEN
 
Home Town: Chicagoland, Illinois, USA
Living In: Chicagoland, Illinois, USA
Member Since: Feb. 2008
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Italian, Mediterranean, Vegetarian
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About this Cook
I learned how much I loved to cook and bake when I moved out of my tiny apartment (with its tiny kitchen) and into a bigger house. Now that I have space to work cooking is a lot more enjoyable!
My favorite things to cook
Crabcakes, homemade bread, linzertorte, all types of pasta
My cooking triumphs
Fantastic cheesecakes! I've learned every little trick for cheesecakes with no cracks.
My cooking tragedies
My dry ingredients are in unmarked canisters. I was making icing once, and I mixed and mixed forever but it was lumpy and gross. Tried adding water to thin it out but nothing was working. I decided to taste it and realized that what I thought was powdered sugar was actually cake flour. Ew! You have no idea how gross raw flour tastes.
Recipe Reviews 72 reviews
Dill, Feta and Garlic Cream Cheese Spread
Sooo tasty and easy. The first time I made this I used neufchâtel cheese- delicious. The next time, I bought fat free cream cheese to use. It was my first time buying fat free cream cheese and lemme tell you: that stuff is gross. I'd never put it on a bagel. It looks like opaque jello. After I stopped dry-heaving at the sight of it, I put it in this recipe and it was still delicious! Go ahead and try the fat free in this recipe. It is still awesome and way way lower in calories. I'll be using this recipe frequently.

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Reviewed On: Mar. 16, 2010
Potato Chip Cookies
Just finished making these. I'm in love! They are sooo good. Delicious plain but decadent with chocolate. I filled a pastry bag with melted and cooled chocolate so I could pipe hearts on them, as they're very plain looking without some decoration. I'm about to go find someone to give these to before I eat all 30 myself. My only notebis that the dough was too dry when I finished...no one else seems to have had this problem, so I probably just measured something wrong. I added a few teaapoons of water and it was fine.

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Reviewed On: Feb. 9, 2010
Peanut Butter Noodles
Freaking DELICIOUS. One million stars. Heck, two million. One of the best things in the recipe is that all the ingredients give a different flavor (sweet, spicy, garlicky) and so it's very easily made to your tastes... An extra bit of honey, a bit more ginger- all the ingredients have such distinct flavor. I use veggie broth and chunky peanut butter and red pepper flakes in place of the chilli oil (which I can't find) but those are my only changes. To the reviewers who thought this was too much Ginger, I wonder if you used fresh? If you use dried ground Ginger you definitely need less. Then again, I love Ginger and can't imagine there being too much. Thank you SO much for the recipe it's a true keeper.

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 17, 2010
 
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