Jenn McGowan

about me

Just moved to Maple Shade, NJ. I got married in October 2004. I love to cook and read. My favorite cookbook of all time is The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Italian.

I love to plan parties with my sister. We make a great team. She comes up with the theme and I cook to match it. We have done a Caribbean party, a Garden party baby shower and we are currently working on an old-fashioned 50's clam bake.

If I had a month off, I would take some cooking and catering classes and then hopefully open my own sandwich shop.

Favorite Foods:

My favorite dish to cook is pasta carbonara. It was the first really difficult recipe I ever attempted, and when it came out looking like the picture in the book, I was sooo excited. I am more famous in my family for the things I can't cook, than what I can. For some reason, I can cook really difficult things, but ordinary white rice, hard-boiled eggs and baked potatoes evade me. I am starting to get a handle on the hard-boiled eggs, and if I want a baked potato just for me, I go to Wendy's and buy it.

The things I would love to make, but have never attempted, are my gram's ravioli and her lady locks. I am intimidated by the lady locks and my mom makes the ravioli, and they are just as good.

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