I started cooking when I was young, and luckily for me, it seems I've gotten my father's culinary skill and cooking comes naturally. I love baking desserts and also eating desserts! If it's full of fat, I'll probably want to cook it, for better or for worse. I also love trying out new dinner recipes to keep things varied and I love making a hot soup on chilly days. My grandmother makes a terrific vegetable soup, and I love duplicating all her recipes, or at least trying to. I hope to one day be as great in the kitchen and have as many culinary tricks up my sleeve as she does! Making dinner for the first time with new people always makes me nervous. A lot of my man's friends were coming over, and I made an elaborate meal for them. They tore it apart! I walked into the room to ask how my mashed potatoes were, and they all pointed towards the center of the table at the bowl, which had been scraped so clean I could almost have put it back in the cabinet! That was a load off. =] When I was younger, as in probably 10 years old, I tried a sour cream candy recipe that just didn't turn out. Although I still maintain to this day that it wasn't my fault, and it still tasted the way it was supposed to, my family ridiculed my cooking blunder at the time and wouldn't even try it. I was crushed!