I am a married woman living in Pennsylvania, who loves to cook for her husband, and anyone else who appreciates my cuisine. Besides cooking and being married to a wonderful man, I work in the Biotech field, and have held jobs in R&D, analytical services, validation, and supply chain. Also, I like to spend time outdoors trying to burn the calories I just consumed cooking copious amounts of food, especially by hiking and spending time outdoors. Other hobbies include watching crime shows, reading, crafts, bargain-hunting, fleat-markets, and farmers markets. I love to cook family style meals, slow-cooker meals, Italian food, chicken dishes, PA Dutch food, and occassionaly a unique ethnic dish. My favorite family cooking traditions are cooking VERY LARGE amounts of food on the weekend or holidays, then spending the next week trying to create unique dishes out of them :-) Also, growing up we had a lot of polish food around the holidays, which I have tried to recreate to some extent. I have recently learned how to make my own dough for potpies, pumpkin pies, etc. I am never going back to the boxed stuff!! I would have to say a recent attempt to make homemade pierogi's. It was not all for naught though, I ended up using the ingredients for homemade gnocchi's!