I'm a wife and mom of 3 young redheads. I'm going back to school after a long time and have one more science class to go before I can apply to nursing school. I love to cook it all! I've loved cooking and baking since I was 6 years old, which is how old I was when my mom let me make my first dish on my own-it was a crazy cake, and I still remember that day! I make alot of theme meals, such as Asian (it can be Chinese, Japanese, or Korean), Greek, Indian, or, of course, American. I spent my early childhood up until my teens growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the regional cooking there influences me to this day. Even though I was born in California and have lived there for over 25 years now, I still crave whoopie pies, shoe fly pie, drop sugar cookies, (to mention the sweet stuff), plus chicken pot pie, (which is really a stew), pork and saurkraut, and red beet eggs. I remember mostly home-cooked meals, and to me, because this is how I grew up, coming from a box is NOT scratch! Pulling off a beautiful Thanksgiving dinner one year for 20. I had help from all sides, but for me, that's part of the victory, since I usually refuse any offers of help in the kitchen. Forgetting to put the sugar in the first pumpkin pie I made for Thanksgiving, at age 16. Then, again, just this last year! :-)