I used to think I was a cook until I had kids. Lately all I do is put edible meals on the table! Now they are getting older, I have more time to cook. I love breakfast foods like stratas and potato casseroles. Rice pudding. when I was 10, my sister and I tried to make rice pudding for my parents while they were bowling. But we didn't have enough sugar, so we opened up enough of my mom's Equal packets to make 1 cup (for one cup of sugar!). And we didn't read that the rice had to be cooked. So when it came out and we gave my dad some, he took one bite, spit it out and said "Good lord what is this ?" Ever since then it's been a family joke. He even got me instant rice pudding for my 25th birthday.