I am a stay at home mom of Kaitlyn 5 and Zachary 4 and wife to John, we have 2 dogs also, so our house is generally caotic Chicken, gumbo, homemade veggie soup, desserts and comfort foods Although she is gone now, my favorite was cooking with my Mawmaw (grandmother) I cooked gumbo for about thirty people when I was about 14, this was my first triumph, and my first solo experience beans, I tend to forget to watch them and have found out the hard way, that pinto beans smell really bad when you burn them.