I love cookbooks and trying new recipes! I like things that are quick and fast but lately I've started to appreciate slower cooked meals. cupcakes, homemade frostings, all other desserts, soups, one pot meals and casseroles, anything challenging or new to me anything my grandma made such as cinnamon rolls, spaghetti sauce, homemade noodles, chicken and rice, potato soup, ham at Christmas and Easter, pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day, my mom's fudge and pretzel salad my first layer cake that I made for my Mom for Mother's Day 2007! also, the rainbow cookies (concocted by combining 2 different recipes) I made for a wedding turned out picture perfect. the worst was a very unappetizing green chicken curry. bad, very bad. so bad in fact that I couldn't bear to finish my plate let alone keep the leftovers. I used the garbage disposal to get rid of the evidence and had something else for dinner. my first attempt at making chicken stock wasn't so good either. it came out way too watery and lacked flavor. however, I'm not deterred easily and I still used it in an Italian wedding soup (which I'd also never made before). no amount of chicken boullion could save that. I'm better at making stock now but I always think of that episode when I do...