I like to bake and make things from scratch. When my kids were growing up I made the bread, the jelly and jams, noodles, all deserts, the spaghetti sauce, chili started from the dried beans, even the pizza crusts, and the hot chocolate all from scratch. We raised our own chickens, ate goat and rabbits which we raised, drank raw milk we got from neighbors, and had a yearly garden. And elderberry wine! I believe in no preservatives, no hormones, and fresh and raw whenever possible. I like to invent recipes. I think sugar has untapped properties. I love good chocolate and get my baking cocoa from France. I like to bake; cookies, cakes-not into pies except for pumpkin without a crust. I am famous for my fudge made the old fashioned way with sugar and cocoa. I am also famous for my pizza (my grandmother was Sicilian) A friend of my husband and not a fan of pizza once proclaimed "This tastes healthy and delicious!" I think it's the spinach hidden in every pizza. Fudge, snowballs, and a gingerbread house at Christmas. Raw cranberry relish all winter long. Ronnie's Green Bean casserole at Thanksgiving. Lamb with mint jelly at Easter. Banana splits on the Fourth of July. Pizza made from scratch! Waffles on Saturday mornings. I make wedding cakes but get the raves on my sculptured 3-d cakes. My daughter-in-law told me that for three years after their wedding, people were still talking about how good the cake was. My first cookies were when I was 7. I thought a quart measuring cup was a cup and put three quarts into the recipe. Rocks. I made my first from scratch cake when I was about 9. It was so tough that it bounced. My brothers tossed it around the room as if it was a frisbe and it never did break. Once I was making a fruit pizza and ran short of flour; I substituted malt-o-meal and the crust seemed to rise and rise and rise off the pan and all over the bottom. What a mess.