As a home school teacher, I am blessed to be at home most of the day. Home is my favorite place to be and all the things I love to do are there: garden, read, cook, genealogy, knit, movies. Using things from my garden, such as tomatoes, basil, rhubarb, cilantro, raspberries and a sundry of other delicious fruits and vegetables. Anything that sounds good. I make a homemade cooked dinner nearly every night. We eat better, avoid the noise and hassles of restaurant eating, and my house always smells like something good to eat. When I learned that my son was to be serving a mission in Italy, I purchased a pasta maker and now I make all my own pasta. Homemade is SO much better than box pasta. It only takes 4 minutes to cook. Learning to make a beautiful loaf of bread has taken me many years, but I have finally figured it out. And boy does it make the house smell scrumptious! My first roast was in a pan on the stove and the moisture dried up and it burned on the bottom. At the time we were poor college students and that roast was expensive. If I recall correctly, I cried.