momaphet

about me

I live about 15 minutes North of Seattle, with my husband Paul. Our 4 children, all in their 20's, have flown the nest. I'm a "tent making" Children's Pastor, I've been working as a temp Admin. Assit., but hope to find a permanent assignment. My DH of 31 years is a professional musican so I occasionally get to travel with him. I love to read, especially mysteries, do rubberstamping (not as much time for this as I'd like), and more recently have fallen in love with watching the birds at our feeders and out and about where ever I go. In the spring of '08 we tore out huge amounts of our front lawn and now have a big garden. It's been fun filling it with mixture of mostly perenials, some annuals and veggies. My DD's & I have been on a quest to visit the best bakeries all over the greater Seattle area and can recommend a pain au chocolat or baquette from Everett to White Center!

One of my favorite cookbooks is Maida Heatters "Book of Great Chocolate Desserts -the poor thing has vanilla and chocolate stains, a cracked spine, and pages falling out! I also love the old Better Homes and Gardens Dessert Cookbook. the 1959 edition of the Pilsbury Best of the Bakeoff and Meda Given's 1961 "Modern Family Cookbook" .

My Rating System

I try to give every recipe an honest review and to be specific on why we did or didn’t like something. We’re partial to food with lots of flavor. A lower star rating is never meant to hurt a fellow chef’s feelings; we recognize the subjectivity of taste. DH gets a voice in the rating process, but I’m the deciding vote if we’re vacillating between stars. If I substitute or leave out ingredients I take this into consideration and go with the higher star level if I feel my changes have affected the recipe adversely.

5 Stars – Scrumpdiddlyumptious! We loved this, have told others about it, can’t wait to eat it again!

4 Stars – Very Good, we really enjoyed it, I’m likely to make it again. If I start thinking about it a couple of days later or make it again within a week or so, it’ll become 5 stars (some recipes grow on you!).

3 Stars – Good, nothing flashy, but good (there’s nothing wrong with good). Maybe needed a little tweak or clearer instructions.

2 Stars – Not to our taste, needed a lot of tweaking to make it edible.

1 Star – Couldn’t eat it.



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Favorite Foods:

I love to bake scones, muffins, coffecake, pies . . . anything chocolate . . .yum!
My Spaghetti Sauce, Chocolate cream puff ring, pumpkin pie, and cheese cake are probably what I'm most known for . . . this is making me hungry. Fav restaurant ??? Breakfast - The Maltby Cafe, Lunch or Dinner - Palomino, Stella's, Lombardi's, Anthony's Beach Cafe . .. now I'm really hungry. I'm going to go cook something.

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