I'm a single woman who enjoys a variety of activities. Besides cooking, I love to go salsa dancing and am currently taking classes in belly dancing, west coast swing dancing and even fencing. I figure I might as well enjoy life and exercise my mind and body while I am still young enough and healthy enough to do so! I love using fresh vegetables from the farmer's markets in the summertime, like salads with really good, fresh tomatoes, green beans, corn, or asparagus. 'Love fresh berries in the summer too, and peaches. I recently decided to go vegetarian. Since I rarely ate beef and pork anyway it has not been that big of a transation altho' I do miss my fish tacos from time to time! Although I don't make them often, my mother taught me to make pies from scratch when I was a girl with crusts from scratch as well, so I enjoy making the occasional fruit pie. I have a number of my favorite family recipes in a card file at home, and one of my favorites for the holidays is a Danish dressing from my paternal grandmother that uses apples, raisins, prunes, cinnamon, and bread cubes all moistened with a little milk and then baked. I recently prepared what I suppose would be a four course meal (soup, salad, main course & sides, dessert) for my entire family for Christmas. Everything was done when it was supposed to be and it all looked and tasted great! Everyone was quite impressed and it was very gratifying. Once when I was a girl my sister and I made some chocolate cupcakes and we added in some peppermint sprinkles. I don't know if we put in too many bits or what, but the cupcakes all collapsed! We still sometimes refer to the "crater cakes!"