I'm wife to studmuffin Josh & mom of 3 girls irie 16, gigi 3 and lola 6 months, it's sometimes really fun and sweet and sometimes, umm not so much. I do graphic and web design on the side. I was a wild teen and twenty something but I kinda like being just boring now. I love a good fufu drink like apple-tini's. We eat vegetarian but hubby is a carnivore for sure but he's cute with the kids, he doesn't like to see them eat it. Anything tasty but I especially love ethnic food. I make up recipes all the time mainly because I just have a bunch of random ingredients when it comes time to cook meals. I'm trying my hand at making my own baby food which is fun and I'm on a quest to make the best funeral potatoes ever. I love to make cupcakes and wedding cakes. I grew up with a good mom who wanted to give us healthy well rounded meals in her own white trash way. We ate a lot of spam which is why I have been a vegetarian for 20+ years (no kidding!). My mom meant well but is the source of most of my food issues, don't get me wrong I love eating I'm just kinda picky which came from a heavy and short rotation of meals. I think that's why I like this site, because I don't want to get stuck in a rut. My parents loved eating the same things every week. I do feel lucky though, my dad was from the south and had my mom cook stuff like grits which I love and okra, which I dispise! I think of my food tradition as being more like anti-tradition aka utah food, I guess it's utah-americana... Lots of jello, funeral pototoes, casseroles, fruit salads, stews, and ward dinner stuff! I whipped up a curry cheese soup recently and didn't really pay that much attention to what I was putting in it and my family gobbled it up and begged for more... and now I can't recreate it because I'm not exactly sure of what and how much I used of the ingredients, bummer. ugg.... Usually the stuff I just make up is ok and editable but once I made some rice with veggies and used a bottle of this 5 chinese spice thingie, I gave it to my daughter and was just about to start eating it when she began spewing rice all over the place, she said... "this is yuckie" I'm thinking it can be that bad, then took a bite, it was beyond yuckie, it was horrid. I threw it out and we went to get fast food and I almost never get fast food!