I'm 53, a stay-at-home wife, aka "domestic goddess" who enjoys cooking, baking, and collecting cookbooks. I also enjoy going to craft sales, and reading books about the paranormal. My 3 all-time favorite cookbooks are: Betty Crocker's 1973 Cookbook, 1976 Campbell Cookbook (Cooking with Soup) and 1979 Pillsbury Kitchens' Family Cookbook. I actually have been a meber of this site since the late 90's, and have posted a few recipes, but under another name. Egg Rolls, Lasagna, Stuffed Manicotti, Spaghetti with Meat Sauce or Meatballs, Chicken Macaroni Salad, Wedding Dumplings, home cooked soups, pasta salads, layered lettuce salads, anything in the crockpot, home-made fudge, Lemon Bars, Mocha Brownies, Frozen Yogurt Pies, a variety of cookies, such as: Santa Cookies, Gingerbread Boys, Peanut Butter Cut-Out Cookies, Toffee Almond Sandies, etc... I also enjoy brewing/preparing my own iced teas, and a variety of iced coffees. In the Spring I enjoy preparing a variety of Rhubarb jams, preserves, pies, and other delicious rhubarb desserts. Many of my recipes have been pulished in our city's Buyer's Guide Cookbook, our church cookbook, our city's newspaper, and my Peanut Butter Cut-Out Cookie recipe, has been published in The Taste of Home 2004 Christmas Cookbook, as well as the Country Woman's 2003 Christmas Cookbook. Just recently my recipe for Pasta Carbonara, was published in the May/June 2009 issue of Taste of Home Simple & Delicious Magazine.