I moved to Wilmington, NC in August of 2007, and before then I'd lived in Arizona all my life. I'm getting into the swing of southern cooking, but quite frequently I go back to the southwestern style cuisine I was raised on. I love to make desserts. Cookies, cakes, and anything sweet. I've never been good at making pie crust though... As far as actual meals go, my mom's taco meat! Along with old favorites, I enjoy trying new things. I love my crock pot and my wok. I was raised on a lot of Mexican cuisine inspired/southwestern type foods because my family lives in Arizona. Tacos, tostadas, enchiladas, foods of that nature. I've gotta say, I'm pretty good at improv. If I've eaten something at least once, I can generally make something similar. It may not be spot on, but it'll definitely taste good. When I was 10 or 11, my aunt and I were making fudge, and we accidentally quadrupled the butter in the recipe. So what did we do? Went to the store and bought enough of the other ingredients to make a quadruple batch. As one could expect, the fudge lasted for months. We eventually finished it off by melting it down and using it in place of frosting for my dad's birthday cake. We called it the "Mud Cake" because I gotta tell you...it wasn't pretty. I thought I'd never eat fudge again.