I'm a happy stay at home mom and wife. I'm married and have 4 children, 3 boys and 1 girl. I love making gooey fattening treats to healthy snacks and meals for my family.
My favorite things to cook
Candy, cakes, cupcakes, anything Italian mmmm. Pizza, spagetti, chili, breads, tons of things geared towards kids parties, both treat-wise and food-wise. My 12 year old son is really into cooking and trying new things this year. Yay!
My favorite family cooking traditions
I love having my children help stir and put things into bowls. We have big family breakfasts on the weekends, everyone looks forward to the different flavored pancakes and they always have to have extra bacon for BLT sandwiches at lunchtime. I make the kitchen a safe friendly fun place to be.
My cooking triumphs
Making candies, fudge, truffles, chocolate covered pretzels so well that people pushed me into making them to purchase as gifts. I'm getting told to open a candy shop all the time.
My cooking tragedies
The first time I made a quiche. My Father helped me. I was 8 and he bought the ingredients and supervised. I put all the ingredients, cracked eggs unbeaten, raw hamburger, raw unseasoned vegetables all in a premade pie shell and put it in the oven. My Dad was the only one brave enough to try it. One bite. Yuck.