I grew up learning to cook, my grandmother and I used to just hang out in the kitchen sometimes. My mother is also a very good cook and I am lucky enough to inherit such traits! Mostly I love recreating the african foods I learned to love while living in West Africa. I also love inventing things from ingredients I happen to have on hand. My grandmother's slow cooker Thanksgiving Dressing...people ask for it every year and our immediate family alone could eat two crock pots full! My latest was a chicken-green salsa-cream cheese-cilantro baked masterpiece...I just threw it all together and tra-laa! It was fantastic! My alltime tragedy-as my college housemates still love to remind me-was the gravy I decided to make when I had just finished making lemon-pepper pork chops...let's just say, mashed potatoes with lemon-pepper gravy will not be the newest item on the grocery shelf!