HeathersArk

about me

Don't forget to KISS the cook!! :D

I love to experiment with food. My youngest brother Aaron is an aspiring restauranteur and between the two of us we really have some great meals at the holidays. I love bold flavors. I love to cook and find it especially pleasing when I have someone special to cook for. That someone is my BF Tim. The best way to a man's heart is through his stomach afterall. I love foods like smoked gouda cheese, olives, french onion soup, pine nuts, capers, etc. My favorite wines are Gwurtztraminer, Pinot Noir, Beaujolais Nouveau, Riesling, Pinot Grigio, Merlot, and Shiraz.

I also enjoy crafting in general. I love to knit and do so nearly every day. I have suffered from arthritis since I was 14 and taught myself to knit to keep my hands moving, now I find myself addicted to it. I also love making gifts using photographs, decopage, painting, woodworking, making bath salts, soap, bat teas, bath bombs, etc. Some recipes are here on Zaar.

I have a love for animals and am a sucker for a stray. I have 6 cats, a dog and a fish. Most of my cats are strays that I rehabilitated. I had 2 tree frogs until March of 2009 when they both died unexpectedly a week apart from one another. So you won't find any frog leg recipes in my cookbooks. :D

RecipeZaar Accolades:

Chef of the Day January 16th 2009. :D





Favorite Quotes:
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - Stephen Biko
"The life of the individual has meaning, only and so far as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobeler and and more beautiful." ~ Albert Einstein
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." Audrey Hepburn
"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small,confined space." - Gloria Steinem
"What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it."-George Weinberg
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."-M.L.K Jr.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscious stupidity." ~ MLK Jr.
"The ultimate tragedy is not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people." MLK Jr.
"If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished" - unknown
"The last mosquito that bit me had to book into the Betty Ford Clinic."-ABFAB
"I thought they didn't let people with drug convictions into America." "It's not so much a conviction, darling. It's more of a strong belief."-ABFAB
"Darling if that woman has one more face lift she'll have a beard!" - ABFAB
"Be the change you want to see in the world."-Ghandi
"An eye for an eye will blind the world." ~ Ghandi
"A mind is like a parachute, it only functions well when open." - unk.
"Have you noticed...anyone going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster an you is a maniac?" -George Carlin

Favorite Foods:

It would probably be a shorter list of foods I don't like (i.e. raw...aside from fruits/veggies, creamed corn, anchovies, corned beef-but I love sauerkraut, lol!)
I really love bold flavors: smoked gouda, goat cheese, rainier cherries, cilantro, dill, basil, pepper, asparagus, artichokes, olives of all kinds, french-onion-soup, capers, pine nuts, sundried tomatoes...

Dry Ingredient Equivalents
1 tablespoon 3 teaspoons 15 ml
1/8 cup 2 tablespoons 30 ml
1/4 cup 4 tablespoons 50 ml
1/3 cup 5-1/3 tablespoons 75 ml
1/2 cup 8 tablespoons 125 ml
2/3 cup 10-2/3 tablespoons 150 ml
3/4 cup 12 tablespoons 175 ml
1 cup 16 tablespoons 250 ml

Wet Ingredient Equivalents
1 cup 8 fluid ounces 1/2 pint
2 cups 16 fluid ounces 1 pint
4 cups 32 fluid ounces 2 pints
8 cups 64 fluid ounces 4 pints

Can't live without (but SHOULD): Ice Cream, cheese, key lime pie (I actually have an ice creamery across here in town that has key lime pie ice cream....WOW!), chocolate covered pretzels, salt & vinegar potato chips, bread, fruit, olives, pickles, ....

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