I'm just starting to cook more complicated recipes. I have found that I can blow way too much money at Whole Foods. I love using fresh spices! I also love cooking things with jasmine rice. Get a rice cooker people!! My husband is Filipino and taught me to use his. No one should be without one. Thanksgiving is big with my family. I never am the one to cook though. This year I plan to bring a dish to "WOW" them. I found that my favorite restaurant had published it's recipe for shrimp and grits. I made it and it tasted EXACTLY the same. I knew then that I loved cooking. REAL cooking. Once made pineapple upside down cornbread. I bought buttermilk cornbread mix instead of cake mix or something. That was when I was in my 20's. I still get hassled about that!