I would have to say I like to BBQ and I like to cook for a crowd. Usually when just our immediate family gets together, thats an instant crowd so I have had to adapt to cooking like that. Traditions would just have to be making christmas cookies and making food for the many family parties and showers that we have had for years now. I can bake just about anything but I have never tried making a cheesecake . I am afraid that will be my cooking tragedy. There are things that I try and they do not work out but I can't thing of one cooking tragedy. I usually try things out at home first before I would bring them to anyones house.