Karen From Colorado

about me

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The picture above is my beautiful 1 year old grandson, Xavier Pryce (aka Zavy). His little brother, Rylan James, will be born in early October. They and their momma are the light of my heart.

I enjoy hosting Recipezaar's chat room and helping to host the Mexican Cooking forum and the Kitchen Reference forum.

I wish I was as witty a writer as some of the others here on Recipezaar, but I am afraid that all of my creativity and talent goes into my cooking, but I will give this my best shot anyway.

I am a single mother to one 18 year old daughter (Alicia), three cats (Tiffany, Peaches and Patches...RIP Furby and Morgan), one very friendly, large rottweiler named Dixie, one very tiny chihuahua named Taz, and grandma to Xavier Pryce and the yet to be born Rylan James. Cooking is never a chore for me. It is more like therapy after a day at work.

I collect cookbooks and am an avid reader of anything but have a particular love of horror novels. I enjoy hosting our chat room here on Recipezaar and helping host the Mexican cooking forum.

Although I have degree in office management and graduated with a 3.8 GPA, I must be Recipezaar's worst spelling member so please excuse me if you notice it in my posts and if you notice it in my recipes, then my thanks in advance for editing the recipe to be spelled correctly if you have done so.

My screen name is pretty simple and easy to remember, but sometimes people do ask me why it says Karen from Colorado instead of Karen from California. It used to be Karen IN Colorado until I moved here to Southern California to be near my sister, Morti, after our parent's deaths in 1996 and 97 and the loss of my job in Colorado in 2002. I tried Karen In California after moving, but it just didn't seem like me so I changed it to Karen FROM Colorado which will always be home to me no matter where my address is at the time. I was born there and will always love that bright and beautiful state. Especially my beloved Rocky Mountains where I spent so much of my time while living there all of my life.

I am currently trying to update all of my recipes to include Celsius for those that do not live in the United States and do not use our way of measuring. Since the site does change measurements with a click of a button, I am not going to change those, but that button does not change degrees to Celsius in the instructions. I hope others will find this information helpful when preparing one of my recipes. I am using the measurements converter here on Recipezaar to do this and sincerely hope that I am doing it correctly. Please let me know if I am not.

If you find yourself using one of my recipes as your dinner tonight, please feel free to change it to suit your own tastes. I will not mind in the least. It is what I would do if the recipe were posted by you. Your ideas might be much better then mine and just might make the recipe even better then I thought it was when I posted it. Please do mention the changes and results in your review even if the change didn't work out like you thought it might. I truly do welcome the feedback and promise not to jump all over you if you make this your practice. All I ask is that you not re-submit my recipe as yours with those changes unless they are major changes. Mind if I ask for an "inspired by recipe whatever by Karen From Colorado" if you do find yourself changing a recipe so much that it becomes a different dish?

I have no secrets, so if there is anything else you wish to know about me, then never feel afraid to ask me. I will let you know if your question is too personal. Most likely the only thing I will not give out to most people is my address, phone number and my last name.

My thoughts on controversial threads as a forum host: Often (very often), I would wish to post my thoughts and disgust about certain topics just as many others do in these forums. I, too, have an opinion most times and would love to blast certain people with them despite the fact that my opinion is just one more in a vast sea of opinions. However; I have learned long ago that my opinion really is just one more opinion and no one really gives a &%$@ what I think about certain topics, so why put myself out there for others to ridicule me for them. There is ALWAYS someone who will. There will ALWAYS be someone that will move heaven and earth to make you see things their way. I am perfectly happy with seeing things my way and it really doesn't matter to me if others don't view things the way I do. Opinions are not facts. They are opinions only and I don't consider them to be a learning tool. They should not be used as one. If anyone wishes to teach me something, then I hope they will do so with good, solid facts. Not with an opinion. As a forum host, I personally, feel a duty to set an example. I will not be baited into arguments on the forums. I consider it smarter then getting down and rolling in the mud with someone who just likes the excitement of controversial threads in order to entertain others. I will not respond to posts directed towards me with the intentions of dragging me down with them to the bowels of hate and discontent. People that wish to do so can take their best shot at me, but I will not be engaged. In my opinion (told you I had one), that makes me smarter. I will not be the one signing the TOS again.

Thank you for taking the time to view and read my about me page. Your taking that time shows an interest in my ideas and in me as a person and I take that as the greatest compliment possible on Recipezaar.

I really like this poem!

I didn't have potatoes, so I substituted rice.
I didn't have paprika, so I used another spice.
I didn't have tomato sauce, I used tomato paste;
A whole can, not a half can - I don't believe in waste.
A friend gave me the recipe; she said you couldn't beat it.
There must be something wrong with her, I couldn't even eat it!

My wish list: Raspberry and cherry balsamic vinegars and Acini di Pepe pasta which I can't buy here in California.

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