applee

about me

I like to collect recipes! I also like to cook, and bake. I just got married in 2006, so I have been experimenting will all kinds of new recipes.

I love reading cookbooks cover to cover. I don't have a favorite cookbook, although I do LOVE all the Death By Chocolate ones.
I enjoy reading and belong to a book club where I get to take all the wonderful recipes I try out from this site! I also play the flute at the Cathedral and give lessons. Knitting keeps me busy and I make cookie trays and cakes on the side. I love to travel and try new foods too....too bad I have to work though, which limits my traveling abilities.

Some good books I recommend are:
Fast Food Nation
The Glass Castle
Memoires of a Geisha
The Red Tent
Middlesex

I love techno music, classical, old Italian records, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and old fashioned romantic French music, U2, Bruce Springsteen, and Jean Pierre Rampal are some more favorits. I enjoy listening to music while I bake and cook especially the cd from the movie Something's Gotta Give and Handel Flute Concertos.

Favorite Foods:

Yumm, I love food.
I like baking best, though.
My favorite foods include olives, onions, pickles, godiva chocolates, SOS Italian cookies, hard shell tacos, sushi not shashimi(sp?), mom's taco dip, my chocolate fudge cake with white chocolate truffle filling and white chocolate buttercream frosting, rack of lamb with spicy peach chutney sauce, chopped salad with steak and blue cheese, homemade spaghetti with meatballs...mmmmmm

I don't really have a favorite restaurant but enjoy going to neighborhood places that are around the Cleveland East and West area. Some big chain restaurants I like to go to are Bahama Breeze, the Melting Pot, Outback, Red Robin, Hyde Park, McCormick & Schmick's, and some others that I can't think of at the moment.

My all time favorite grocery store is WHOLE FOODS!! My husband lived in the DC area for a little while and I absolutely loved shopping there and Harris Teeter which has a great cheese section. I would totally move back to DC in a heartbeat!

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