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SaraLady19
 
Home Town: West Sacramento, California, USA
Living In: Sacramento, California, USA
Member Since: Nov. 2002
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Slow Cooking, Indian, Middle Eastern, Healthy, Dessert
Hobbies: Knitting, Gardening, Camping, Wine Tasting
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ME!
About this Cook
I LOVE cooking! I obsessively clip recipes out of magazines, newspapers, etc. I can follow pretty much any recipe, and I am always looking for new recipes on allrecipes.com to try!
My favorite things to cook
Anything I can bake! I'm also a master slow-cooker chef. I make a mean butternut squash soup, and my chocolate chip cookies get requests.
My favorite family cooking traditions
My Opa apprenticed to be a baker when he lived in Germany, and he worked in a bakery here in America for almost 40 years, so I grew up in a kitchen making Steussel, Pfefferneusse, and Apfel Kuchen (fellow German bakers, you know what I'm talking about!) So baking is in my blood. ;-)
My cooking triumphs
I made the BEST cheesecake once, (Chantal's Cheesecake, from this website!)And the first night I made a roast for my boyfriend, he was SO impressed.
My cooking tragedies
None... yet! ::crossing fingers::
Recipe Reviews 14 reviews
Bubba's Jambalaya
This recipe was great, and was even better the next day as leftovers after everything had a chance to marry. Only change was we used medium sized pre-cooked shrimp instead of salad shrimp.

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Reviewed On: Jul. 9, 2008
Banana Sour Cream Bread
FANTASTIC! I made this recipe 3 times before I really feel like I got it just right! Here are my discoveries: 1. I added just a dash of nutmeg and ground cloves. 2. I halved the recipe and made two 7 1/2" x 9" loaves, but the first time I used the temperature and time given in the recipe, resulting in two doughy (but delicious) uncooked loaves. If making two loaves, do 325 degrees for 1 hr 10 mins, they bake perfectly! 3. I can't really make the butter and sugar in the beginning "cream" together, there's just too much sugar, (but don't change the sugar amount!) So don't worry if it doesn't look creamy. 4. I used an electric mixer to mix the wet ingredients together, but I hand-mixed the flour into the mixture. Try #2 I used the electric mixer to incorporate the flour, the loaves turned out to be a bit too light and airy for me, like cake. Hand-mixing in the flour created a denser, more bread-like consistency. 5. Making a crumbly topping is a MUST. I took a topping recipe from Zucchini Bread IV from this site, but I modified it just a little bit for two loaves: ~ 1/2 cup packed brown sugar ~ 1/2 cup all-purpose flour ~ 2 or 3 tablespoons butter or margarine ~ 1 teaspoon cinnamon ~ 1/3 cup chopped walnuts or pecans. I microwaved the butter for just a while to make it nice and soft, mixed it together with a fork until it was cumbly, and spooned it over the loaves before putting it in the oven. This bread is SO good and easy, even for a novice baker like myself!

2119 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 22, 2007
Oatmeal Carmelitas
These are SUPER good! I follow the recipe exactly, and oh my gosh it was a HUGE hit at my office potluck. Will definitely make again!

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Apr. 16, 2007
 
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