I've been a stay-at-home mom for the last 28yrs and have always enjoyed cooking all types of foods. I love to learn and am always on the lookout for local cooking/baking classes. I stink at baking and would like to be better, especially baking bread. I rescue cavalier king charles spaniels and love to garden; just love playing with dirt I suppose. Italian has always been my favorite although I love so many of my mother's dishes and have not been able to duplicate them like her sweet/sour meatballs and her kugel. Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorites along with Passover foods like my mother's tzimmis. I used to make a knock-out apple pie but haven't done that kind of baking for years. The bread I just ruined, it was a recipe for a dark rye bread that never rose well and once baked tasted like chocolate chalk.....I got the recipe from the bag of Hodgson rye flour and won't repeat that disaster. There were others like the egg bread that fell and became flat bread....