Jenn
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Living In: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Member Since: Oct. 2005
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Asian, Italian, Healthy, Dessert, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies: Walking, Reading Books
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It's me!
About this Cook
My name is Jenn and I'm 25. I've been cooking since I was just a little girl, helping my mom around the kitchen and eventually cooking things by myself. I currently live in Kentucky with my boyfriend, who also loves to cook. We're constantly on the look out for tasty new recipes to try out and tweak to perfection. I love having dinner ready for him when he gets home from work, but I also love cooking with him. Every day should include a fun adventure in the kitchen!
My favorite things to cook
I love baking! I'm always looking for new cookie recipes, as well as new breads, cakes, pies, etc. I also like cooking for other people. Entertaining is a new found love of mine.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Every holiday my job has been making the deviled eggs. It's a quick and easy dish, but there's something so comforting about making them (and eating them!). To me, it's not a holiday without them.
My cooking triumphs
Whenever I perfect a recipe, figuring out exactly how much salt, removing an unneeded ingredient, adding a clove of garlic... Tasting something that the first time was an 'Mmmm' and now is a 'Wow!' is my idea of a triumph.
My cooking tragedies
Every Christmas I make assorted cookies to take to family events, charity events, and so on. Last year, my Mom asked me to bake my famous chocolate chip cookies (a recipe from the allrecipes.com site, I might add). My sister was helping me, and in our laughter and talk, I completely forgot to add the baking powder to them, AND added too much flour. I didn't realize it until the first batch came out of the oven, puffy, weird looking, and tasting pretty gross. Needless to say, I ended up trashing the whole batch, then running to the store to buy more ingredients. My sister still won't let me forget it.
Recipe Reviews 42 reviews
Pan Sauce Chicken
This was very simple and quite good. It didn't taste low fat AT ALL. The sauce was very rich and perfect over seasoned rice and with some rolls. So tasty. I'll definitely be making this again.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 18, 2012
Cinco de Chili Chocolate Cupcakes with Chili Cream Cheese Frosting
Easy and delicious! I'm diabetic so I made a couple changes to suit my diet needs, using a no-sugar-added cake mix (Pilsbury brand) and cutting the confections sugar in the icing in half. They're still fantastic and you'd never know they were lower sugar. That being said, I imagine adding the full 4 cups of confectioner's sugar would make the icing even better (it was darn good with half!). I did think the heat was a little mild and added just a bit more ancho and cayenne to the mix. I don't think I'm brave enough to add chopped bits of pepper though. Definitely making these again, and definitely going to go eat another right now!

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: May 4, 2012
Best Brownies
First I'd like to say I made these EXACTLY as directed, absolutely no changes were made. Any suggestions I make are strictly based on what I suspect would work based on other reviews. These brownies weren't tragic, but they weren't good, either. "Best" is certainly in the eye of the beholder, and this beholder calls foul. They were easy to make, which is awesome. Definitely mix them by hand, an electric or stand mixer will give you cakey brownies. A few lumps is ok with brownie batter. Definitely melt the butter for the frosting, otherwise you end up with a sort of chocolately dough that's impossible to work with. My boyfriend and I thought they had kind of an off taste. My boyfriend bit into one and announced "It's not bad, but it doesn't taste like a brownie. Don't use this recipe again." Indeed, not using it again.

2 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Apr. 22, 2012
 
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