Lorilyn Tenney

about me

I am 38 years old, happily married with a 15 year old son & a preemie daughter born on July 31st, 2006.

I love to cook, bake, quilt (machine piece, hand quilt), create greeting cards and scrapbook our family memories.

I am a recipe junkie! Cookbooks, magazines, magazine clippings, you name it. I have been a loyal subscriber to the Taste of Home magazine since 1994 and until I found Recipezaar, that is where i found most of my favorite recipes. My biggest challenge has always been to try a recipe without making changes the first time. I'm always tinkering with something or just not measuring, but I'm working on that.




Partner: Alaskann


Banana-Raisin Nut Coffee Loaf, Greek-Style Oven-Roasted Lemon-Butter Parmesan Potatoes, Kittencal's Chocolate Buttercream Frosting/Icing, Chocolate Spice Cake, Kittencal's Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs (Or Burgers), Tomato Glazed Meatballs, Norwegian Butter Cookies, Parmesan Garlic Potatoes, Kittencal's Easy Oven-Baked Barbecued Chicken


For Group #5: Church Windows by Luvin' Texas, Black Forest Cherry Cheesecake by Kim127, Whole Tandoori Chicken by Aaliyah&Aaron'sMum


Meatball & Tomato Sauce (Moroccan Tagine), Moroccan Beef Stew Tagine, Easy Chicken Tagine With Olives and Lemon



Submitted: Artichoke, Spinach & Sun Dried Tomato Dip, Sun Dried Tomato Chicken Salad, Sunrise Biscotti
Tested & Reviewed: Strawberry Sweetheart Streusel Muffins, Brandied Orange Nut Bread, Key Lime Jewel Cookies, Little Bit of Everything Swirl Bread, Kicked up Monte Cristos!, Strawberry Passion Muffins, Honey Pecan Glazed Pork Chops, Crock Pot Tangy Chicken and Black Beans, Pecan Crusted Chicken With Raspberry Drizzle, Bacon Spinach Asiago Quiche, Brandied Strawberry Wine, Dreamy Decadent Orange Rolls, Pasta With Chicken, Spinach, Pine Nuts, Bacon And, Sloshed Strawberries for My Valentine, Orange Raspberry Chicken, Pancakes With Blood Orange Honey Sauce, Raspberry Wine Toaster Bread, Rcs #11 Roasted Red Pepper Chicken Rolls, The Full Monty Cristo (Lower Fat), Roasted Artichoke Hearts W/ Sun-Dried Tomatoes & Cheese

Hidden Gems of RSC#11: Raspberry Brandy Pecan Cake, Tomato-Artichoke Bruschetta Bread

US Regional Alphabet Tag (March 2k8): Rustic Apple and Dried Cranberry Pie, Empire State Muffins, Herb Crusted Pork Tenderloins


Beer Bread by Zaney1, buttermilk rye bread by Chia, Cottage Cheese Cinnamon Rolls by Heidi in Seattle, Country White Bread or Dinner Rolls (Bread Machine) by DDW & Orange-Lemon Citrus Bread by RecipeNut



Coffee Brownies


Adopted by: Debber
with Bacon 'n' Egg Lasagna, Verry Berry French Toast & BLT Macaroni Salad


Adopted: L. and T. mom (Baked French Swirl Toast, Beefy Macaroni Dinner & Teriyaki Pork Chops), Evelyn L Jepson (Caramelized Creme Brulee, Zelniky & Hello Dollies), Ladderman229 (Chicken Soup Firehouse Style, Banofee Pie & My Sunday Meatballs), LadyBell (Roasted Pork Tenderloin With Garlic, Shallot and Chive Parisienne Gnocchi & Simple Garlic Pasta), Ladydaungerous (Jennifer's Spicy Chicken Vegetable Pasta Soup), LAKlosterman (Pasta Salad Ranch Style, Tuna Dip & Cucumber and Onion Salad), 'lil cooker (Fantabulous Garlic Bread Pizzas, Quick Chili Con Carne & Ground Turkey Tortilla Casserole), B.Brown ~P (Lightly-Butter Fried Cheese Sandwich), Carla Dee ~P (Chicken Salad), Cntrygrl160 ~P (Peanut Butter Apple Cake), Dawn Reid ~P (Green Bean & Bacon Wraps), Elle Woods Can Cook! ~P (Easiest Party Meatballs), Jennifer Rosholt ~P (Grandma Ila Nelson's Lemon Dream Bars & Sharron's Easy Minestrone Soup), neddaisy ~P (Ornitha Zante), OrcaSkunk ~P (Homemade Chili Powder), Raynebow's Mom ~P (Dd's "specialty Toast"), rbrynsaas ~P (Out of This World Chocolate Cookies), Salty Spider ~P (Teriyaki Marinade), Snuffelump ~P (Lovely Fluffy Chocolate Moose Scroll), Tatianaplaster ~P (Ww Easy and Yummy Chicken Fillet), WacoCookGirl ~P (French Fry Melt), Whitby Tart ~P (Mother in Laws Tongue)

Favorite Foods:

My family's favorite dinner is Beef Rouladen (recipe posted here) and homemade dinner rolls. I am really a meat & potatoes kind of gal but growing up in Seattle I love fresh salmon, shrimp, crab & lobster. Besides the salmon, I don't usually cook the seafoods at home, just enjoy them when we go back to Seattle for visits. I love baked goods & prefer to make them homemade. I have a huge weakness for Krispy Kreme apple fritters, but all donuts can stop me in my tracks. My mom & I started decorating all occasion & wedding cakes together in 1989 or 1990 & since moving to Boise I really miss those times.
I am probably most "famous" for my dinner rolls. I've been making them by memory for 20 years & I recently found what I think may have been the original scratch paper the recipe was written on; only to find that what I've been "remembering" was not what the recipe was. So I posted the recipe here to avoid my memory going astray & changing the recipe again! All the kids in our family love to help make rolls & although it can get a bit messy they have a great time & I love spending the time with them.

I am also an admitted milk chocolate chocoholic. Not looking to recover.

We moved from the Seattle area to Boise, Idaho in November 2000. We love the friendly people & the sunshine here, but miss our favorite fondue restaurant in Woodinville, WA, The Melting Pot. I like Mexican, Chinese & Thai foods. Love spicy food! Ate it with both my pregnancies & both kids can eat pretty hot foods now.

Our family loves to camp in our travel trailer during the summer months, ride ATVs and just relax & enjoy the nature all around. But my favorite part of camping is having all that time to cook! I've always said that I can't eat hot dogs every day & I don't see why we would have to forego tasty homemade meals just because we are away from home. Of course, it helps to have a microwave, range & convection oven in the trailer. lol
So far I haven't found anything that I can't make while camping but I do tend to make a lot of foods & dough before we go, pack most of it with the FoodSaver & then put them together or roll them out while camping.

I know when reading a recipe if my family will be receptive of it or not & tend to stick with those that will suit our tastes. Every once in a while I will go wild with an "out of our box" recipe & when that happens everyone is willing to trust my judgement & give it a try. I love that about my family.

My general review guidelines are as follows:

5 stars - Loved it! Perfect as posted & already have requests or plans to repeat this recipe!

4 stars - Liked it a lot; possibly made minor tweaks for personal preferences (usually adding extra spices, garlic or onions & decreasing or omitting cheese 'cause DH doesn't eat it), or slight alterations due to differing ovens,size of eggs or fresh squeezed fruits.

3 stars - Liked it but to make it again would require a major change to the original recipe to suit our tastes. Possibly will make again sometime.

2 stars - Really didn't like it. Could be personal preference or the recipe just didn't meet expectations.

If your recipe gets 2 or 3 stars I'll always explain why & I will never leave a negative review due to errors, major changes or substitutions on my part.

Thanks for taking time to learn a bit about me. If you have any questions feel free to zmail!

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