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Cook of the Week: Carmon Hacker

• NAME: Carmon Hacker

• HOME: Trenton

• WORK: Part-time reading intervention specialist at Seven-Mile Elementary School, in Seven-Mile.

• HOW LONG she?s been COOKING: Since she was 8 years old and started making peanut butter cookies.

• HOW she OFTEN COOKS: Cooks two or three days consecutively each week; then serves leftovers and eats at restaurants.

• COOKING MENTOR: Her mother, Joyce Patrick of Trenton.

• COOKING SPECIALTY: Desserts, easy entrees such as pot roast and Crockpot chicken, and quick breads such as homemade corn bread.

• FAVORITE COOKBOOK: Three local cookbooks — ?Breiel Favorites? (a 1978 Breiel Boulevard First Church of God cookbook; Trenton (Home Avenue) ?First Church of God Cookbook? (a 1985 cookbook); and ?First United Presbyterian Church in Middletown Cookbook.?

• FAVORITE RESTAURANT: Guy Welliver?s Smorgasbord in Hagerstown, Ind.

• SPECIAL INTERESTS: Writing, 2 books published, reading, cooking, and spending time with the family — husband, Mike, and daughter Rachel, 14, and son Adam, 11.

• TWO FAVORITE RECIPES: Homemade Payday bars and Hot & Hearty Crockpot chicken.