I love cooking, especially when I find new recipes and new ingredients! One of my favorite has to be my Grandpa's pork tenderloin, which we had every Christmas. It's incredible. It's actually roasted in a deliciously yummy sauce made in part from ketchup! Love it. I think my best triumph was cooking a Thanksgiving dinner by myself for the first time. I managed a twelve pound turkey, and when I say "managed" I really mean it. I used the Joy of Cooking "turning" method to make a perfectly cooked turkey (well done thighs, moist breast meat) and turning a 12 pounder every forty minutes, four times, is quite a challenge! The turkey turned out fabulously, if I may say. My husband redeclared his wedding vows on the spot. Happiness prevailed! I tried to make my own Korma chicken, using a few ideas from other recipes, and what I thought were the usual spices for Korma chicken. I wanted to make the meal big enough to last my husband and I for another four or five meals, so I used about ten or twelve chicken breasts!! I piled them all into a baking dish with the rest of the ingredients, and baked it for the recommended time. When it was done, it didn't smell too great. But I served it to my husband anyway. It was terrible!! The spices were all wrong. It tasted as if you were sucking on a whole nutmeg. The worst part was that I had used SO much chicken; it was a huge waste! But actually, I was able to salvage the chicken (scraping off as much of the horrible "korma" as possible) and used it in another dish that I knew could somewhat overcome the previous cooking! At least it was not an entire loss...