I'm a second grade teacher who has come back home to Virginia to teach. It's a readjustment from being away for 6 years, and I don't get to bake as much as I'd like. (That should change in the next few months!) I love entertaining and opening up my home... so this hospitality, of course, fuels my motivation to try cooking new things! Any dessert, especially friends' favorites. My Nuna makes banana pudding every holiday... I look forward to it each year. :) My Aunt Traci makes delicious baked beans, too. But other than that, I don't really have any... but once I have my own family, you bet there will be some! :) Within my circle of friends, I'm famous for my "chocolate chip banana bread" so people will give me their rotting bananas! My Dad also loves my "Mexican Lasagna," so it's become a tradition to make it for him every so often. :) In high school, I really wanted to bake a "creme de caramel" for my French Honor Society, so I took on the challenge. Well, let's just say it wasn't exactly edible. The "caramel" came out hard and burnt, and the "creme" was just as bad. That was a pretty humbling disappointment since it was the first time I tried baking something on my own.