I'm a single female, retired, and I live alone with my two cats. My 32-year-old daughter lives close by and visits often and has dinner with me. Mostly Mexican food. We have excellent Mexican restaurants here in Tucson and I learned to cook the food mostly from just kind of analyzing what I was eating and figuring out how to cook it. I also like to cook desserts and have a large collection of recipes The normal Thanksgiving meal which always includes a fruit salad my daughter and nephews named "pink stuff" years ago. To this day, they always insist on me making it. At Christmas time, my daughter says it is not Christmas until I make the Mexican wedding cakes. It would have to be my salsa. I even won first place in a salsa contest! All my friends look forward to receiving a jar for special events. Leaving spaghetti sauce cooking on the stove while I went shopping, thinking I had turned it off. Turned out, I had turned it up to high instead and had a complete mess with sooty walls and a melted pan. Thank goodness the house didn't catch on fire!