I am 21 and currently live in Johannesburg South Africa. I moved here almost two years ago to marry my husband, Gerald. He is the love of my life and my tasting buddy! I love to cook and especially to bake. I am currently trying to get a baking company up and running so we will see how that goes! Some of that is thanks to all of the wonderful cooks on this website! Finding it was definitely God orchestrated! I love cooking Enchiladas, Italian food....all that good comfort food! Most of all I really like to bake. I have been baking almost since I could read! I love trying new recipes, but I also like my good faithful ones. I love to make a great salad...I like all the chopping...I think it's calming for me after a day of work. My favorite family cooking traditions are all centered around Christmas. My mom taught me how to make our traditional Christmas meal when I was about 15. I did it all by myself that year because she was sick! She gave directions from the couch! I have four siblings...two of them sisters. We all used to bake and decorate sugar cookies and gingersnaps and yummy things like that. Those are my favorite cooking traditions. My mom is really the one who deserves all the glory for my cooking abilities. I couldn't have done it so well without her. My cooking triumphs have all happened since getting married. Whenever my husband loves on my dishes and tells me that I can make it again (like I need his permission!) It really makes me feel like I've accomplished something. Thankfully he doesn't compare me to his mom because she didn't cook really at all. But his gran did and apparently she was amazing. I must not do too bad because he hardly brings that fact up! He is a seriously picky eater! He loves my chicken enchiladas and would eat them every day if I would make them...the first time I made them was a triumph because he had never had them before and he loves them! The first time I ever made chocolate chips cookies I just went down the list of ingredients and threw them into the bowl one after the other. Little did I know that there is actually a method to this madness called baking! Fish is a tragedy for me. I hardly ever get it right. Possibly because I hate it!