I love to cook. I love to bake. I truly enjoy good food and am passionate about it. When dining out I tend to lean towards italian, thai or indian food, but there is so much more out there I've yet to try. I don't give that much credence to non or low-fat ingredients when cooking a good meal (exercise & moderation work just fine), you'll *never* catch me cooking or baking with margarine instead of butter, and i get annoyed when i can't make lasagna because all I can find in the supermarket are ten kinds of low-fat, low-moisture, skim milk mozzarella. I own quite a few cookbooks, love the cooking channel, and the foodsaver comes in handy a lot these days. Comfort food in any form, italian food, pepper steak, chili, beef stroganoff, shepard's pie, roast pork cooked with sauerkraut & side of mashed potatoes, hot appetizers, cake, various cheesecakes, pie, zeppoles, cookies, muffins, banana bread, zucchini bread, brownies, fudge.. you name it