I am an artist, and enjoy building dollhouses, making dolls, sewing Baltimore Album quilts, and studying gemology. Desserts, especially cakes and pastries. Also breads. Love Scandinavian baking. German: Stollen, wine kraut with juniper berries, bacon potatoes, pork roast. Swedish: pea soup with pork, pancakes with lingonberries and sour cream, sugar cake. I made a very passable dinner of Steak Diane and Potatoes Anna at the age of eleven. I love a challenge and enjoy "difficult" things like French and Swiss buttercreams, genoise cake, souffles, etc. I prepared hand-made chocolates in elegant packages for Christmas one year only to have a horrifying bloom appear on them before they were ready for giving. Mortifying, and I had only myself to blame for not yet understanding chocolate tempering.