I am a 22-year old student living in a flat with my best friend away from home. This means I usually cook for just myself and as I am not picky some of my creations are very... ehhm, interesting! :-) I love to cook for other people as well and then I try to do things properly. This is where allrecipes.com comes in- it's been a tremendous help and I am sure all my friends appreciate it! I don't think I have got a favourite thing to cook. I love to bake- muffins, cakes, pies. I am always looking for new recipes to try. I also like to be creative and hardly ever follow cooking instructions 100%. Whenever possible I prefer to cook with fresh ingredients rather than tinned or frozen as I believe it tastes a lot better if it's fresh. Something I have not yet succeeded as is baking bread. I have tried numours times but the outcome has not been statisfactory yet. There are no real traditions I remember... obviously I look forward to the huge variety of Christmas biscuits year after year and at Christmas we always sit down on Christmas Eve to my grandma's self made sausages. Making a Christmas dinner for my friends! The turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes- the whole lot. I was very stressful! My boyfriend was taking pictures of me while I was peeling, chopping, stirring away and I look so stressed!! Hahaha! :-) But it was definitely worth it!! There have ben a few! Once I tried boiling an egg in the microwave- I would not recommend this!! It exploded, the microwave door flew open and covered the whole kitchen in yellowy goo! Oh, and I once tried making bread in a muffin tin and this experiment failed as well- I ended up with "bread bricks" that nearly broke my tooth when I tried to eat one. Mmh, and sometimes I get too creative and carried away.