I recently moved to New York City from Seattle Washington with my husband. While living in Seattle during college I became very experimental with my cooking (since I was living alone during that time). My favorite "invention" was a Portabella Bagel Sandwhich, which consisted of a grilled portabella mushroom sauteed in garlic and Olive Oil placed on a whole wheat baged (untoasted) with a smear of cream cheese, sprouts, and a tomato! I would eat this almost daily. During this time, I also had little money to my name (because of college and rent) so I limited myself to about $10 a week on groceries, which I spent mostly in the international district of Seattle, buying my goods in open air Asian and Mexican Markets. I learned how to be very creative with my food and use every last thing... I also lost tons of weight since I mostly cooked vegetarian! (not because Im a vegetarian, its just harder to buy meat and use it all up when single). Now that Im married I have gained a few... I love to cook mandarin orange chicken, cookies, and my favorite of all time is LAMB. Seriously the yummiest meat ever. I also love to substitute recipes that call for sour cream with non fat fage greek yogurt. Its so much healthier and its just as yummy, seriously, TRY IT! I dont really have any... I just cook when I want to! aforementioned portabella sandwhich! When i first started baking cookies, I would melt the butter to make it easier to mix and i just couldn't figure out WHY my cookies wouldn't turn out right... lol