I'm a live in cook and housekeeper for my brother since we're both single. I really love cooking and get most of my ideas from this site. I don't know that I really have any one thing I enjoy cooking more than others. I tend to plan my meals around what kind of meat I want that day, but not always. The only family cooking tradition I can think of offhand as being noteworthy is how my grandmother makes her homemade egg noodles. After mixing up the dough and cutting it into noodles she boils them in water for a few minutes to get out the starchiness. Then she transfers the noodles into the sauce she makes, which is a combination of chicken stock and cream of chicken soup. Everyone always raves about her noodles every holiday and I am so glad that she taught me her secret, and that she said it was mine to share with whomever I wished. The best thing I ever cooked was the Lover's Beef Burgundy Fillet from this site. I've been struggling for some time now to cook the perfect steak, and thanks to allrecipes.com I am finally getting there. Luckily I haven't had anything too tragic happen lately. Some deer steak I made turned out a bit tough because I didn't tenderize the meat before frying it, and the pretzels in my Strawberry Pretzel Salad overwhelm the dish because the proportions are off in the recipe. I realized that might be the case when I saw how much they filled the cake pan, but I went ahead with the recipe as written when I should have changed it.