Working wife, mother and grandmother. I don't cook quite as much as I used to but I do cook differently since my current husband is not a big fan of vegetables I do more meat and potatoe type things. I am not used to having leftovers because I raised 5 sons so they pretty much ate anything and everything! Now I only cook for the two of us. I still like to cook my old standbys but occasionally want something different which brings me to all recipes. I like to cook according to my mood. I bake alot on the snowy or rainy days and in the summer I enjoy making different types of salads because it's too hot to cook. Christmas cookies with the little ones at Christmas time and Easter egg dying with the older grandchildren. Teaching some of my cooking tricks to my daughters in law. Has to be my very first meal as a new wife at the age of 17. Served my new husband pretty much raw friend chicken. I have improved a lot since 1968.