I have loved cooking since I was a little girl, back then my older sister even complained about me because all my games involved food and cooking. Now we both love to cook and often share cook books. I dreamed about going to culinary school but I decided to major in chemistry instead, which I also love very much; and think about it this way, ultimately, cooking is all about chemistry ;) Lately my sis and I have been writing a recipes blog, to visit us go to: http://buendiente.wordpress.com/ Italian, specially pasta, I love pasta I'm constantly trying to come up with new ways to serve it, if it wasn't for the carbs I would eat pasta every single day. I am Mexican, and I obviously love Mexican food, I have had the fortune to travel around several places in Mexico. Realizing about the richness of our culinary culture is one of the things that delights me the most, when I get back home, I always try to replicate whatever I have discovered (well except for the baby grasshoppers sope I tasted in Oaxaca, it was utterly delicious, but I couldn't taste it but once, it was just too weird for me) Making about a dozen sorts of cookies chocolates and candies to give away in Christmas. Also I spend Saturdays cooking, I plan complete menus including appetizers, soup, main course and sometimes even deserts, I don't always have the time to do the whole thing so it is usually just two courses, mainly because I take so long, on Saturdays I don't like to rush, its like a date, I often drink wine or beer and watch a movie or listen to music; so relaxing and fun. Every time my picky boyfriend likes something I cook and asks for it again, or whenever he wants to get involved in the cooking, even though sometimes I act like a kitchen dictator... lol So, so many, the last one I think was when I had this crave for chocolate cake, so I started looking for a recipe, I didn't have much butter, so I luckily found an oil chocolate cake recipe on this site. I had started mixing all the ingredients when I realized I didn't have oil either. I had to make some weird substitutions, and of course, the end result was not the best, although it satisfied my chocolate requirements n_n