I am full-time working mom of a college graduate, fourth grader and kindergartner. I LOVE cooking and experimenting. I want to instill the joy and fulfillment of cooking in my girls the way my mother did with me. Anything my family enjoys. I have found recipes that my little ones and I can do together and ones that my college kid can prepare to awe her friends with. My family makes brigadieros and rouladen for Christmas every year. It's a time when my sister, mother and I sit around the table, open a bottle of wine and work though the preparation...and the wine. I just wish my grandmother was there to be with us! I've finally learned how to make chicken marsala and have some easy to whip up desserts. I'm no longer afraid of making kebabs or shrimp scampi, all due to this website! I need to work on my pastry skills and on angel food cake. I just can't seem to get my egg whites frothed and stiffly peaked. Food 911--where are you?