I'm in my early 30s and spend most of my time caring for my family and home. When the weather is nice, I'm usually outside doing yardwork; my daughter would tell you, "Mommy loves to pull weeds!" For other fun I teach yoga, swim lessons, and water aerobics. My daughers who are 3 and 6 love to help in the kitchen. I'm vegetarian and am always looking for new recipes that will delight my family. My best friend's mom is my inspiration; a true artist, everything she makes is beautiful as well as delicious: she says her husband won't eat it if it doesn't look good! I love to make pizza. I'm nervous about what to cook for meatlovers, but they always love my pizza. I love to make salads: green, pasta and fruit. I also enjoy baking cookies and bread. I wish I could bake cookies more often, but I don't know anyone who is in need of the extra calories (certainly not me!) so I try to limit my baking to special occasions. I like to try new recipes, and I don't yet have very many recipes that I keep in rotation. Sometimes, I forget which recipes I've tried, even if my family loved them, but writing recipe reviews or taking pictures of the food helps, otherwise I'd have forgotten what I've made. Popcorn is my favorite food, so much so that I once dressed up as Orville Redenbacher for Halloween. I make mine the old-fashioned delicious way: in a pot on the stove. Making houska (Czech bread) at Christmas. Once while visiting my aunt for the holidays, we got snowed in by 5 feet of snow.... we couldn't leave the house and the airport was closed.... we occupied ourselves by baking hoska all day (for three days) until the roads were cleared - we never got tired of eating it. My grandma is of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage and she makes the most beautiful breads effortlessly.... I'm still aspiring to that! She also used to cook huge lunches for all of the farmhands during harvest season, wow! Anytime I make something that my family raves about and asks for me to make again is a triumph. I wow myself if the main dish and the accessory dishes are timed to be done and on the table at the same time My husband nearly turns cartwheels if dinner is ready when he gets home from work. I will always remember the day when I discovered that I can make delicious mac & cheese from scratch in the same amount of time as it takes to make the boxed kind. I feel like I'll never truly perfect my cooking skills because there is always something new to learn and room to improve. Most of the time I feel like a kid experimenting in the kitchen, but looking back, I have learned so much. My mom still bemoans the time I tried to boil water in the mircrowave in her stainless steel pot - I was 9 and trying to make mac & cheese - I had failed to notice that macaroni was usually cooked on the stove - the microwave survived, but we had to buy a new handle for the pot.