I've been cooking since I learned in Home Ec. in 6th grade, so 12/13 or so... I've tried to cook just about every american food there is, and a few german, italian, and french cuisines, they've all come out great and have had requests for repeats. Chicken Cordon Bleu, Cheesecake, Boston Creme Pie, and German Potato Salad. We really don't have any anymore, too many branches on the tree to do a traditional Thanksgiving or Christmas Dinner anymore. My Cheesecakes and my Pumpkin Pies, I used to sell them to coworkers and their friends around the holidays. the very first time I made German Potato Salad, when I was 14, the recipe called for three times the right amount of Vinegar and none of us thought anything of it when we were mixing ingredients, and then we tasted it... and spent an hour trying to figure out how to cut the vinegar in the existing salad without tripling the recipe...