I love horses and painting,designing,refurbishing furniture, plays and musicals,and city festivals. I love music and finding instruments and clothing from other cultures and countries. Friends are extremely important to me.I love attempting to cook things that are challenging or that I have never done before. I like meals to be easy and generally not take half a day to cook but still have an element of gourmet to them. I am gluten intolerant and all my foods are usually cooked with organic ingredients. Very few items in my kitchen are processed. I love making decadent and challenging desserts and then plating them decoratively making them look even better. I love cooking with all kinds of foods and spices and making/tasting different flavors. I don't like dishes to be subtle. stir fry, onion rings, cream puffs, cupcakes, things with a lot herbs and flavors to them. a lot of Italian and Asian dishes. Nothing bland in my kitchen!!!! I used to watch my mom cook when I was younger and as I got older I wanted to cook and so I broke out the skillet and made my first teriyaki stir fry. since then the kitchen has to be one of the most used rooms in the house. As far as traditions go, growing up my mom cooked a lot of pot pies, soups/stews, meatloaf, steak and fried potatoes, and of course chocolate chip cookies! Me and a friend (Lady Equus) both love cooking and we got together one day and decided to try to make our own onion rings (after smelling them down the street). Turned out delicious!! a artichoke heart wine sauce. ended up tasting like really light olive oil which was weird since there was no olive oil in it.