eat to live creative healthy food with fresh ingredients My mom made the best quiches and her lasagna was famous. We also made traditional French tartes at Christmas time. Cooking the perfect spicy gumbo. Baking a spectacular three layer carrot cake from scratch! Learning how to cook any kind of seafood. practice makes perfect! attempted to make black bean soup with rice in it. used sushi rice which turned the soup into thick, mushy sludge. tasted good but the texture was waaay off!