I am an experimental psychologist and currently work with lemurs. They are amazing animals and never cease to impress me with their antics and skills. I have an amazing little nephew who lives entirely too far away. At the moment, I am working towards my PhD and trying not to stress out too much along the way! I absolutely love to make chicken enchiladas, fruit salads and sour cream pear pies. My mom is Chinese, so I try to make the things she cooked as I was growing up... unfortunately I never make pie crust that turns out as good as hers! But I like to make stir-frys, stuffed zucchini, tomato shrimp, curries, fried rice, Chinese BBQ chicken, and won-tons. I didn't learn much American cooking from family, but a lot from friends' parents, like baked beans, chili, biscuits and gravy and chicken and noodles. I have several blue ribbons for bread pudding, sour cream pear pies, brownies and various other desserts. Got an honorable mention for chicken wings once. The very first turkey I ever made... I didn't know they left a bag of guts inside the cavity of the turkey. Needless to say, it got cooked also... I never have made that mistake again!