I've got a wonderful husband and we're still pretty much newlyweds (since 2006!). He's been great about eating everything I've made, despite the wide range in success :) Mom gave me a solid background in cooking basics and baking. Moved to Wisconsin and have started learning how to cook for myself. It's great being able to trade recipes with her now! Baking quick-breads, cookies, trying new recipes. Breakfast foods will always score high with me. I love one-dish meals that have all the veggies, meats, or carbs all in one prep. I really need to work on finding solid recipes for supper. :) After church every Sunday my mom would fix a wonderful lunch for our family and invite the grandparents over. It was great, that was when we got the best food and you could just about guarantee she'd have pie made that morning (she's an early bird!). I don't know if I can compete with that, but I'd certainly like to continue that tradition. My Cooking Club! After moving here, a few of us ladies have started cooking together once a week. We get together at someone's home every Monday night and bring a new recipe and the ingredients for it. We'll help each other make our dishes and then have them for supper that evening with our husbands. It's great! I get to try 4 new recipes without a bunch of leftovers. And I've learned so much from them! Oh geez, I would say the vegetarian lasagna I tried last month, it was awful. My dear sweet Husband could only eat one piece and refused to try any more. It was bad. ...And then there was the time I made a custard pie and misread the amount of sugar to put in. I put in the amount that was supposed to be for the milk. So it was ~7x sweeter than it should have been. Mom helped me to dilute it down and only make 6 pies instead. :)