JLANAM
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Home Town: Covington, Louisiana, USA
Living In: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Member Since: Oct. 2004
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Dessert, Kids, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Photography, Reading Books
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Love cookies
About this Cook
I love sand volleyball and reading, and I'm a Creative Memories consultant. I'm really enjoying getting my 4 kids' pictures into albums so we can all enjoy them! I like to make and decorate cookies and cupcakes for and with my kids.
My favorite things to cook
DESSERT, especially chocolate! Also muffins, because my family always appreciates them.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Crawfish boils, and oliekooks (sp?) on Christmas morning. My children and I started a new tradition of decorating cookies and cupcakes for holidays. (See the pic of our Valentine's Day cookies on this website.)
My cooking triumphs
Mostly desserts, although I made a crawfish ettouffe one time that was out of this world.
My cooking tragedies
Hmmm... I have a hard time getting turkeys done on time. Even with thermometers, sticking them in various places like you're supposed to, something's always undercooked.
Recipe Reviews 56 reviews
Meadowwood Tapioca Pudding
This was DEE-licious. I used the 1 1/2 qt. slow cooker that only heats to hight, and cooked it for 2 hours. I used 1/2 cup sugar (perfect sweetness), 2 TBSP vanilla like it says in the video, and 2 egg yolks. You don't really need to cook it long after adding the egg yolks, since you're not bringing the temp down much so it cooks in just a minute. We were ooh-ing and ahh-ing so much over the flavor that my son even turned down ice cream for it, and he didn't like tapioca before this!

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Mar. 27, 2012
Amazingly Easy Irish Soda Bread
I feel bad for giving this bread a bad review because of all of the good reviews. Maybe I just don't know what Irish soda bread is supposed to be like. If it's supposed to be like a dry, crumbly, biscuit-type bread, then this recipe has hit the mark and I'm just not a fan. This is the second time I've made it, thinking I must have missed something the first time, but it's still as dry and crumbly as ever.

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Mar. 20, 2012
Rich Mashed Potatoes
Very good, and I couldn't find the sour cream in the fridge, so I just used less than a cup of milk. I imagine it's even better with the sour cream (although I'd use Daisy light - less fat & calories and none of that yucchy gum stuff the others have).

0 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Feb. 28, 2012
 
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