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tina2
 
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Living In: Michigan, USA
Member Since: Apr. 2010
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Mexican, Italian, Southern, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Healthy, Dessert, Gourmet
Hobbies: Gardening, Boating, Walking, Fishing, Photography, Reading Books, Music
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About this Cook
I just love cooking, entertaining, throwing parties, etc. I was raised with Polish/ Slovaian style of cooking...But I grew to love all ethnic foods
My favorite things to cook
Anything Polish, Italian, Lebenese, Mexican.... I love making cakes, cookies, homemade chocolates I always seem to "just taste something "once" at a restruarant...Then "go home", and make it even better. I have never really followed a receipe...I just "sorta "figure it out"
My favorite family cooking traditions
Every Holiday season, I just love to "set the table to a T"...Then make a beautiful sit down dinner, from 3 to 6 courses.
My cooking triumphs
Planning and cooking for my younger sisters baby shower...I had 80 people at my home and cooked TONS of good polish food. There was Roasted chicken, Pork Chops, potatoes, "city chicken" polish kielbaska/saukrute. I even did the setting up the tables and decorating, salads and a huge display of desserts. Plus I made her a lovely wedding shower cake. I did it all myself. It turned out beautifully.
My cooking tragedies
The first time I made lasanga for my husbands Italian family...I was sooo nervous I "forgot" to let the lasanga "set" for 10 minutes before I served it....OMG! I took out the "first piece, and "all the filling stated running out of it! I though I was going to DIE!...I made lasanga a hundred times before, but this was the first time I had his whole family there for a "sit down dinner!"...To this day(30 years later...I think of that each time I make lasanga!..Funny now...Not then~Laughing~
Recipe Reviews 5 reviews
Quick and Easy Eggs Benedict
Use a "packaged mix, just add splash of lemon juice just before you are done BAM! Finished, Great, Easy "no difference!" Sprinkel with cayene pepper. If you "don't want to mess with "poached eggs, fry them..

5 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 13, 2012
Best Steak Marinade in Existence
This is good, but I have been doing the "exact ingredients for over 20 years. You "do not" need to blend ingredients in a blender at all. In fact, if, after tasting "mixture", it seems "to strong for your taste buds", just an a little water to it.". I also always add "a little oil or canola oil" to the mixture(it depends how much you make, but "at least a tablespoon". It tenderizes the steak/pork/or venison" meat, and gives the flames on the grill a chance to "dance upward", giving those nice "charred lines> I also use both powered garlic and real garlic. I subsitute lemon juice with "rice flavored vinegar or wine vinegar. Be sure "not to over due the acidic ingredients(lemon or vinegars)If you have "fresh basil leave handy, instead of dry..even better. I always "freeze "fresh basil leaves" in a ziploc baggie, to have handy in the house. Just crush the leaves once from, grab a handful to add to your "marinades or pasta sauces. Makes a "huge difference in flavor. Sometimes, instead of "soy", I'll use Terriyaki sauce instead, or sometimes "a little of each". Especially with "pork tenderloins. Even throw in chopped green onions. Once you are "comfortable making your own marinades, "the "skys the limit". You also , if a tender cut of meat(like pork or beef or venison tenderloin", do not have to marinate "more than a half hour". Marinades will stay in a glass jar up to a week, if you do not have time to do it "daily". I send up a batch with my husband went he goes hunting

4 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Mar. 30, 2012
Vegetable Pizza I
Hi Everyone! Try this..Instead old "plain cream cheese", use Philly chive and onion cream cheese, mixed with sour cream instead of mayo...add some garlic powder! Yum! All my friends "can't figure out why my veggie pizza has better flavor "than theirs!" You won't need ranch dip this way.I also use "fat free if a store carries it.Stay away from tomatoes, unless you "just use the outer tomatoe(no juices) I've used dill dip on top also, then put veggies over it! Be sure to add "green onions if you want to give it an "extra kick". Even if you "just use the greens".

5 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Dec. 22, 2011
 
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