By reading my profile I just completed I feel I come across as aloof,but I'm not. Love cooking, but not getting into the "fusion" thing. Good meals can be done without using every gadget and/or spice in the kitchen Being a guy-naturally anything on the grill. Meats Trying to pass down the things I did with my mother growing up to my two children. Special memories are making Xmas Spritz cookies and now watching them get better at doing their own "dishes" Large parties we have, Christmas Eve indoors with 50 people. All sorts of appetizers with 3-4 main dishes. Start cooking a few days ahead. It is a pain but when its done it is a great feeling knowing you pulled it off. Recent bean soup that somehow tasted like a salt mine. I think my kids were helping me and didn't tell me. A couple of ducks done outside on the rotisserie that became flambayed when the grease starting dripping. Live lobsters in our kiddy pool for everyone to pick out there own and a guests child got nipped by one.