My hobbies are cooking and hockey. I never really cared about cooking until I had my daughter. Since then I make sure I know what's going into my family's bellies. Cooking helps me control that. I like all sorts of things. I guess I have the least amount of knowledge when it comes to baking. I like to bake, it's just I like to eat what I bake too much. So I try to focus on making things that I should be eating. Hmm...I think I'm starting some of them. I never really learned about cooking from my family. I'm more self taught. I must say I prepared the best Thanksgiving turkey I've ever had. My mom's boyfriend made a slight mistake saying it was the best he's ever had too right in front of my mom (he's had her's before). My mom agreed to let me make the bird, but argued with me because I wanted to brine it. She said it wasn't tradition. Since that Thanksgiving we've brined the bird everytime we've had it. I guess I get to start some new family traditions. Once, I was making brownies for a boyfriend's family. I was also cooking dinner at the same time. Not paying complete attention to what I was doing I forgot to put eggs in one of those instant recipes for brownies....after we had dinner I pulled out what looked like coffee grinds in a pan out of the oven. I looked like a total idiot, I mean who screws up boxed brownies.