I am 24 years old and I've been cooking for a while. I don't get the chance to cook very often due to a busy school schedule so I'm still learning. Anything that involves pulling the meat off of a rotisserie chicken! Sooo easy! Also, anything that involves the crock pot and slow cooking but I have a hard time planning in advance to make these meals. My mom is a chicken pot pie master. She uses an old family recipe and makes the noodle dough from scratch. I still haven't even attempted this. My favorite tradition is making the stuffing or as we call it "filling" the night before Thanksgiving. Again, an old family recipe that I believe was created for a small army! The best 2 things that I make are slow-cooked roast beef and apple pie. It gives me great pleasure to know that I can actually make a good old-fashioned Sunday dinner! I learned my apple pie recipe in a home economics class in high school and mastered the pie crust right off the bat. Even my mom is jealous that I make such a great pie crust(something she could never get quite right)! :) One of the first times I ever made dinner for my boyfriend(of now 8 years), I made a chicken casserole from a home ec recipe that I loved! I bought all of the same exact ingredients right down to the brand names but for some reason...it tasted awful! He didn't think so...but I did. Maybe it was my nervousness playing with my taste buds, but I never made it again. I also love pork chops but for some reason I cannot get them right. I've tried lots of recipes which taste great, but my pork is just so dry! I've tried grilling, baking, frying....I've tried marinated, smoked, all sorts of things...but pork chops just don't like me. I also once made a chocolate cake with peanut butter icing from scratch for my boyfriend's birthday. He was going to be home from work any minute so I didn't have time to let the cake completely cool before I frosted it and it ended up a gloppy, goopy, mess! Even after sticking it in the freezer! It still tasted great but it wasn't very pretty. :)