Engrossed

about me

Below is original packaging from Svenhards Swedish Bakery which my Swedish relatives started years ago in California...The photo on it is of my great great grandmothers sister Tilda. My family no longer owns the company but the products are still sold all over the place! Perhaps I inherited my baking genes from these relatives.


My hero is Pippi, I'm her every year for Halloween.

I love to cook and share good food with other people. I have a very large collection of cookbooks and work at a public library. Even with those resources I find myself on this website looking up ingredients I have on hand to make something.

My favorite place on Zaar: http://www.recipezaar.com/bb/viewforum.zsp?f=72

Playing with food. My 2 favorite cats Freddy Cat and Bob the cat and Muffy Mushrooms from
Muffy the Velvet Mushroom Soup & Friend - Longmeadow Farm


October 2006- Me and hubby


Updating this I just lost all of my banners! I'll have to try to dig them up again...

Favorite Foods:

Summer 2007 I started the South Beach Diet.

Freddy Cat is looking for recipes...

He's on the hunt for recipes that will fit into an almost Vegetarian South Beach Diet but Fish is okay. No potatoes, white processed foods or sugar. Sweet potatoes are okay. Lowfat. Yummy fresh veggies and whole grains. No fake meat or soy. Easy to make baked goods that can be made with whole wheat flour, whole grains and Splenda would be great too...but please no kneading or rolling. Foods low on the glycemic index. Drinks made with 100% fruit juices are enjoyed as well.

Freddy Cat loves FLAVOR! (But can't handle hot chili peppers) (But can handle horseradish and wasabi)

Freddy Cat travels the world by trying Ethnic recipes.

If you can tempt Freddy with your recipe you may just have him by for a visit!

I put a link to his recipe request thread as my website.

I have a thing for sour cream! I love lemon desserts. Portabellos, onions and garlic are yummy. I like ethnic foods, especially middle eastern, indian & greek. A toasted onion bagel with cream cheese is pure comfort food for me. Homemade tacos (fried shells, seasoned ground beef, sour cream, cheddar cheese, tomatoes, olives and lettuce. Yum!) are one thing I can't stop eating if I make them...so I try to only make them once or twice a year. I love white meat chicken, beef and lamb too.

I have a different ethnic Christmas each year. I'm focusing on mine and my husbands heritages first and then will move on to others. We've done Swedish, Filipino, Polish & then at my husbands request a Dicken's Victorian Christmas.

I've recently discovered "fiber". I never thought about it much but once I started looking at the fiber content of foods...I discovered it's hard to get in 25-30 grams a day! Lentils are my new friend.

I like pretty much everything even things I didn't like as a kid: brussel sprouts, cooked spinach, beets, cilantro, etc.

I still don't like weird internal animal parts (except liver) or bitter melon. Well...I keep on running into things that I forgot I don't like (because I avoid them)...so I'll list them as I remember them: Anything with a black licorice flavor (anise, fennel), couscous, anything with a "bitter" taste, Gin, Beer, Wine (tastes like rotten grapes to me, which it is!), Rose water (tastes like soap), tarragon, too much marjoram, shredded coconut...

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