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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.


Latest review:

November 19th, 2018

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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Favorite Recipes from Melissa Clark's Kitchen: Family Meals, Festive Gatherings, and Everything In-between

By Melissa Clark
Black Dog & Leventhal - 2018

2nd July 2018

Chocolate Chip Pecan Loaf Cake : page 178

This one is a bit on the sweet side but still delicious with a cup of coffee. Easy to throw together with things I already had on hand.

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Made 1/2 recipe for my breakfast. I didn't have hot smoked paprika but did have just smoked so I used that. Had anchovies I bought for another recipe. Really didn't taste them in this. Never thought of adding tomato to an egg salad sandwich but really enjoyed it. I had a great tomato from farmers market and made sandwich on a toasted whole wheat sandwich thin. Very tasty version of egg salad.

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5th July 2018 (edited: 5th July 2018)

Garlicky sesame-cured broccoli salad : page 163

This one says you can leave at room temperature for at least an hour or up to 48 hours in refrigerator. I decided to make the day before I was planning on eating. I'm not sure why but I didn't care for the taste of the broccoli this way. I enjoy all the ingredients involved but somehow this didn't work for me taste wise in the finished dish. I kinda hate to give it a low score because it's not the recipe itself that doesn't work it's that I didn't enjoy the taste.

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Son grilled these for our supper. We loved them.

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1st July 2018

Roasted Shrimp and Broccoli : page 100

Made a half recipe for my supper one night. I had cumin seeds but not coriander seeds so I used a smaller amount of ground coriander. I'll be making this again. Easy and delicious. Nice flavors from the lemon, chili powder and other spices.

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Son and I had these for lunch. Very good. I couldn't find horseradish cheddar so I used cheddar and a chopped horseradish in a jar. No poppy seed bagels so I used everything bagels.

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2nd July 2018

Studendous hummus : page 229

Son and I enjoyed this one. We like trying new versions of hummus. I also made the cumin salt as suggested and it was a nice addition. I didn't cook the chick peas since I was unable to find dried at any of the stores I checked so I used canned. Two cans yielded a tiny bit more that the recipe called for and not wanting to waste them I just added them in.

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