I'm a vegan and recent Texas transplant who loves cooking for my amazing girlfriend and dog. I cook on an almost daily basis and thoroughly enjoy getting creative with dishes and even if they don't quite work out, it's a great learning experience, right? Vegan and vegetarian dishes, casseroles, mexican fusion, firey tex-mex, hearty oriental cuisine, thai and indian dishes, and I'm just starting to dabble in baking and pressure cooking... Watching my mom run laps around the kitchen before any family event and, despite constant woes of catastrophe, pull off the most amazing meals I've ever had. I've been working on fine tuning a vegan pot-pie recipe that will send any omnivore to their knees in ecstacy. :-) Wow... I had a toatster oven catch on fire once. And blew a coil of a stove, which left bits of metal in the walls. And I've watched a cappuccino machine explode when unattended. Nevermind, I plead the fifth.