southerncooker's Profile

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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Food Network Magazine
(October, 2012)

This makes a rather large meatloaf so you can have meatloaf sandwiches after the first meal. The meats this one calls for are veal, beef and pork. Since my daughter doesn't eat red meat and veal is hard to find here anyway I used turkey and pork. Although this is good we didn't really care for the garlic sauce even though we all love garlic.

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I loved Cat Cora's Tomato Soup and grilled cheese croutons so I knew I'd have to try Ina's as well. This recipe from Oct 2012 Food Network Magazine is also in Ina Garten's newest cookbook, Foolproof. I liked this one even better than Cat's. Love the addition of saffron and orzo pasta to the soup. The swiss grilled cheese croutons complement the soup to a T. My daughter made this before I did and told me how much she loved it and that she ate the whole pot in a weeks time. I knew I'd have to make it too and I'll definitely be making it again.

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This one takes some time to cook and we really didn't think it helped the meatloaf from the same page. We didn't think it was worth the trouble nor did it help the meatloaf much. We preferred the meatloaf without the sauce.

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