I enjoy cooking for my husband and our friends. Every week we have a small get together and everyone brings a dish to pass. I've grown a lot in the kitchen since we married and started these little parties. I love cooking just about everything. My newest love is baking, but I've got a lot of learning to do before I feel truly comfortable baking for a group. the holidays are my favorite cooking memories. We have a large family and I recall the kitchen being so full of food we had to have dinner spread out in the living room and dining room on the holidays. Mom served us buffet style for dinner and we'd use the leftovers for casseroles and sandwiches for the rest of the week! My husband and I hosted our first Thanksgiving last year. It was a madhouse, but we got through it. I cooked dinner and our aunts brought dessert, pies and cakes, yumm. Between my family and his we had almost fifty people over. Everyone raved about the meal and the ladies helped me get everything cleaned and put away. It was truly a cooking triumph! My attempt at banana cream pie. I'll leave it at that.