I've been cooking and baking for over 40 years and am still passionate about learning new things when it comes to food and cooking. After all these years, I still love to bake. My specialty and most requested dessert is pie, any kind of pie. I'm probably best know for my pie crusts (they're really flaky), but if I had to pick a couple, the crumb-topped apple pie and lemon meringue are probably the most requested. I come from a long line of exceptional cooks on both sides of my family. My mother was an award winning cook who passed on her skill and passion to me. Personally my most satisfying moment came when I decided to cater all the food and desserts for my husband's retirement party from the US Air Force. It was a labor of love that a couple of hundred people got to share with us. It was a lot of work, but worth the effort and it meant so much to my husband. Where do I begin. If you cook and you like to experiment, you WILL have flops. I've forgotten the sugar in pies and cookies. Put too much chili powder in spicy stews and incinerated some good pieces of meat over a too hot grill. I've made some pretty terrible coffee that looked and tasted like tar. There have been items that were so bad they went from the oven to the garbage disposal. You just have to laugh and then order take-out.