My gorgeous husband and I got married on June 7th, 2008. I love being his wife and cooking for him and our family and friends in our apartment...although I'm not a huge fan of doing the dishes! I work full time so I don't have as much time as I'd like to devote to cooking, but I try my best to fix dinner at least four or five nights of the week. My husband and I will be moving to San Diego, CA at the end of next summer and I am excited to take advantage of the different variety of produce and other foods that will be available there! I love to bake, especially cookies. And I'd really like to try making more ethnic foods for my rather adventerous hubby. Recently, I've been getting braver when it comes to altering recipes, and even just "winging" something without any recipe at all. I love having the freedom to throw in a little of this and a little of that. And I just discovered that I HATE cooking with bone-in chicken thighs. I'll never buy them again!!! I just got a breadmaker for my birthday, and I know I'll love being able to make our own bread. My mom and I always spend a day during the holidays making cookies and candies that we take on trays to all of our holiday gatherings. Buckeyes, of course, are my favorite, as well as my husband's! I look forward to making all kinds of goodies for the holidays in my apartment this year. My mom is quite "famous" among our family and friends for her chocolate chip cookies and I am proud to say that I am the only person other than her who can make them like she can. I guess that comes from a decade of standing at her side watching her make them! This Mother's Day Ryan (my then fiance) and I were having his mom and grandma over for lunch. I thought I'd make Fettucini Alfredo with grilled chicken. I made homeade alfredo...but apparently I used a tad too much flour. I ended up with an alfredo pancake!!! We ended up heating up some spaghetti sauce out of a jar and everybody loved it :-) More recently, I tried making eggplant parmesan for my husband and myself, and it was so yucky! We threw the entire pan in the trash and had frozen pizza for dinner instead.