I am married with two wonderful children and two great dogs. I love to cook and especially love to bake. Our family loves to entertain and provide great meals to our guests. I expecially enjoy baking, then watching others eat it. Stuffed stuff! The two family favorite traditions that came to my mind first were the stuffed calamari and stuffed artichokes at Christmas! Took a loose flan than did not harden properly and an overbaked Coconut Cake - put both together in a large bowl and gave it to my sister to bring to a political dinner (never thinking that anyone would like it). The next day, my phone was ringing off the hook with requests for this recipe! Set the oven on fire trying to make a Blackout Cake. Then, baked two beautiful, picture-perfect cakes from scatch - a Crumb Cake and a Coconut-Banana Cake. As soon as my guests started to eat them, we realized that the shortening I used had gone bad! I thought it smelled funny, dah!