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whataFRUIT
 
Home Town: Hawaii, USA
Living In: California, USA
Member Since: Oct. 2010
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Asian, Mexican, Italian, Healthy, Vegetarian, Dessert, Kids
Hobbies: Needlepoint, Gardening, Hiking/Camping, Boating, Fishing, Hunting, Photography, Painting/Drawing, Charity Work
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About this Cook
I grew up on Oahu, so I still try to live the "aloha" island spirit. And no, I don't eat Spam. Fish & steamed rice is comfort food. My favorite breakfast is half a ripe Solo papaya with nothing but a spoon. I wasn't blessed with children but I do have 14 nieces & nephews. Some of the public education I do is helping people find ways to live without adding to the pollution of our drinking water. For example, buy as much local tree-ripened unsprayed fruit as possible, or grow it yourself. Buy food in bulk or in recycle or compostable packaging (NO plastic). Rip out your lawn and replace it with raised beds for veggies (veg garden uses same amount of water as lawn but you can't eat grass). Use least-toxic methods of pest control and ask your neighbors to do the same. And I avoid hydrogenated oil completely (read those packaged food labels).
My favorite things to cook
Poached eggs on toast with salsa. Cherry cobbler with tart Morellos, not commercial pie filling. Pasta with basil pesto. Uncooked: Sliced nectarines with blueberries. Caprese salad (Sun-ripened heirloom tomato slices on large basil leaves on slices of fresh mozzarella, crackers optional, sprinkled with balsamic vinegar & olive oil.) And fruit smoothies with yogurt & unsprayed container-grown strawberries.
My favorite family cooking traditions
My niece greets me at the door with "Auntie, what kind of pie did you make?"
My cooking triumphs
Apple pie. Oatmeal raisin cookies. High-protein whole-wheat cinnamon-raisin bread. Cheese souffle.
My cooking tragedies
One mistake from years ago still makes us laugh: the pumpkin pie flavored with powdered garlic instead of powdered ginger. We ate it anyway! Usually I eat fresh fish raw (sashimi), "blue" (briefly seared, which restaurants are reluctant to do for liability reasons), or smoked. So I should have been suspicious of the 30-minute bake time on this website's "Flounder Italian Style." Oh well.
Recipe Reviews 3 reviews
Company Cauliflower
Tastier than steamed caul. w/mayo! Easy cleanup too! I had 1 head of cauliflower for 2 people, so made half a recipe. Greased an 8 x8 Pyrex glass pan with olive oil. Put florets in large skillet with 1 inch water and no cover, let simmer til I had sauce items ready. (Next time I will cover it, for caul. came out crunchier than I like it.) For sauce, followed LAMPLIGHT's idea to use bowl, so mixed 3/4 cup each cheddar & sour cream with 1 TSP each Dijon mustard, Worchestershire sauce, & rice vinegar. Added dash of salt & pepper. Added florets & mixed til well coated. Toasted a slice of sourdough, buttered both sides, cubed it, and scattered over the florets. Baked at 350F for 30 mins, then upped to 400F for another 5 minutes. The top was then nicely golden brown. My husband said it was good and I shouldn't change anything. Thanks for sharing!

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Oct. 26, 2010
Fruit Oatmeal Cookie Bars
I was looking for a shortbread-based bar cookie recipe & found this. Trufflebun's advice to "combine all dry ingredients first, then cut in butter with 2 knives as for pie dough" works well. I used an 8 x 8 glass pan lined with buttered foil. For the filling, used a can of whole berry cranberry sauce that had been kicking around the pantry since last Thanksgiving. Added some toasted chopped almonds to the top layer of crust. It came out of the oven quite moist, and I would have eated it in a bowl with ice cream if I had any. Next time I'll try jam for the filling. Still looking for a shortbread-based bar cookie recipe.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Oct. 21, 2010
Italian Style Flounder
Too much juice from fresh chopped tomatoes plus the excessively long cook time made for mushy cardboardy tasting fish. And yes, the fish was fresh today. I just don't like cooked fish, prefer to eat it raw (salmon or tuna) or briefly pan fried. Sorry everybody!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Oct. 21, 2010
 
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