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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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My Year in Meals and My Year in Cocktails

By Rachael Ray, John Cusimano
Atria Books - 2012

We enjoy potato salad and often like German style instead of the mayo based I usually make. I decided to try this one as it was totally different from the version I normally make. Bad Idea! Neither hubby or son liked it at all. I could eat it but sure wasn't my favorite. It was too soupy for one thing from the beef consomme. It suggested serving it with spicy brown mustard and I stirred some in mine which helped the flavor a little.Son said it was too sweet but it only calls for 2 tablespoons of sugar in the 1/2 cup of cider vinegar and 1/4 cup of EVOO for the dressing. I definitely won't be making this one again.

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Although this was good I don't think I'd make it again as written. It doesn't give a size for apples and mine were rather small so I added another one. I think a cup of apple cider was a bit too much for the amount of apples. My orange was a bit big so I think I also had to much zest for the amount of apples, as it was a bit over powering. Hubby said it tasted like it had some kind of alcohol or liqueur in it. I ended up cooking about twice as long as suggested and still had to mash the apples up a little with a potato masher. The applesauce was supposed to be a bit chunky which I like, but hubby said he'd rather I'd used the hand blender and really mashed it up.

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