WiGal

about me

Welcome to my AM page and glad that you stopped in for a visit! I am retired and love it! Some of my favorite things include hiking, swimming, camping, disk golf (world's largest is in Highbridge, WI-Edgar Sawtelle country), reading (member of 2 book clubs), traveling, yoga, line dancing, etc. I also volunteer for the local thrift shop and am a pool monitor. DH and I have been married 35+ years. We walk 3-6 miles daily. While in AZ we hike once a week with a hiking club. May through October we live in northern Wisconsin overlooking a lake with a beautiful island and the other six months we live in southern Arizona overlooking the Santa Ritas mountains (where Madera Canyon is). We have 2 sons, 1 DIL, and a grandson who is one years old and the delight of his grandparents. Our younger DS is attending school again after being laid off in Oct. 2008. My cooking has to fit into our lifestyle -simple, healthy, and tasty.

Favorite Foods:

I am a lazy cook who favors oven meals so that I do not have to "man" the stove constantly. I have cookbooks that are categorized by oven temperatures. LOL there! Also love leftovers so I have my own recipes plus have collected others that we like. Enjoy cooking to music-any kind of music-motivates me. My favorite restaurant food is Italian. Hurley, Wisconsin has the best pizza and Caesar salad that I have had anywhere at a place called the Liberty Belle Chalet. My favorite appetizer is the walnut ball from the Trempeleau Hotel on the Mississippi River (I think Lock #9) and would love to have their secret recipe. Although I did find a recipe at RZ that is a vegetarian meatball that is phenomenal (the recipe is the only one submitted by that person). I also enjoy Mexican food like pork tamales. I love vegetables, chocolate, cinnamon, rosemary, thyme, tarragon, cardamom, rhubarb pie, and apple pie. I prefer wine but will drink a cocktail occasionally-especially DH's margarita or Cape Codder.

Thank you for visiting my AM page and to all who have made or/ and reviewed my recipes I also love a response either via zmail or inside a forum to my review and sometimes photo of your recipe.

Enjoy your day!

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