Love of my life is Jesus Christ. Happy Wife! Proud mom and grandma! Passionate, obsessive, inquisitive, control-freak foodie. Blessed! Anything And Everything For Brunch. Baking, Especially Cookies. Big Sunday Dinners For My Family. Creating new traditions all the time. My grandchildren are now old enough to help with some things in the kitchen and they have expressed an interest so who knows..... I single-handedly prepared and served my sister-in-laws rehearsal dinner. I had never cooked for a big crowd (other than family) and I was scared. We had a wonderful menu that included Hawaiin chicken, steak kabobs and pork loin. I served a New York style cheesecake for dessert along with some petit fours and ended the night arguing with one of the guests who swore that there was NO WAY everything was homemade and not from a professional restaurant or caterer. What started out as a favor to my sis-n-law, turned into a passion and desire for the culinary arts. When my kids were young I was always searching for variety and a break from the ordinary. At one meal I prepared a "Caribbean Sweet Potato" recipe. It was definitely different from anything my family had been exposed to at the time. It was an epic failure. I ate it (more like choked it down) to prove to everyone that it really wasn't THAT bad. Fifteen years later my kids still will remind me of "those disgusting awful caribbean sweet potatoes". Isn't it funny how vividly they remember the failures???