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From: Boomer, NC USA

Joined: January 3rd, 2010

About me: I collect cookbooks and love to cook and try new recipes. I tested recipes for Leite's Culinaria for almost eight years. I learned to cook from many good southern cooks including my Mom, Dad, several Aunts and my Grandmothers. My children and husband also like to cook and try new foods and recipes. My son still lives with us but our daughter is married. She often visits to cook with me. We are adventuresome eaters willing to try new things.

Bourbon Roasted Pork Loin from Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook

This was delicious. I know she says in the book not to use the good bourbon but all I had was Woodford Reserve so that's what I used. I marinated for about 8 hours in fridge. Loved the apples and onions... read more >

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Everyday Food
(Jan/Feb, 2012)

These were really good and made a nice light Sunday breakfast. This is from the light issue and the recipes include nutritional information.

These are baked in large muffin tins. The recipe is supposed to make 6 jumbo sized cups. I made a half recipe and got 4.

I forgot to pick up frozen hash browns when I went grocery shopping so I just peeled and shredded the amount of potatoes I needed. I also squeezed out as much water as I could from them.

Since red bell peppers are so high I decided to use some mushrooms I already had on hand along with the ham and onions called for.

I only had one complaint. I really like my yolks runny and I cooked them for the smallest amount of time called for once the egg was added. This was said to produce a set white and very runny yolk. Mine was a bit runny when I cracked it open but once it hit the other hot ingredients it pretty much cooked it too. I left hubby's in for a bit longer then mine since he liked his yolks well done.

Instead of using an offset spatula to remove them from the tins as suggested, I just ran a spoon around the edges and scooped them out. That worked really well. I would make these again and cook for a little less time for myself.

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Since this was in the party section and the serving size was two meatballs I'm assuming these are meant for appetizers. Instead we had them as a main course and ate 4 each.

Daughter and I really loved the spicy slightly sweet hint to these. This is the first time I've made meat balls where you didn't use bread crumbs. Even though the only ingredients in the meat mixture are onions, garlic, salt and pepper they are loaded with flavor. The sauce of honey, chipotle chiles and cider vinegar add loads of flavor. We ate ours with mashed potatoes, greens, green beans and cornbread and they were delicious. I'll be making these again.

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