I'm a 27 year old wife-to-be living in St. Louis with my fiance, mini dachshund, and Siamese cat. I graduated college with a Bachelor's degree in Business and moved to St. Louis from a tiny little town in mid-MO. I grew up on home cooking and want my fiance to be able to brag about how good his wife's food is someday! I love to cook everything, but my absolute favorite thing to cook is any kind of dessert. I love to bake cakes, cookies, and cupcakes. I try to never cook the same dish twice in a month! I enjoy spicy dishes and Cajun style food. If I have a lot of time to kill, I like to make sushi rolls with lots of fillings. My mother makes the perfect version of a home cooked meal... using leftover bacon grease, making fried chicken and pork chops, real mashed potatoes with tons of butter... very rich and very bad for you! But, it's always nice to visit and get treated to one of her meals, even if I have to work out extra hard the next day! She taught me the art of eyeballing ingredients... I rarely follow directions, and I'm always adding more ingredients to make a dish tastier! Lately, I've been branching out into cooking more difficult meals. I cooked my first turkey last year and it came out perfect! For one Valentines Day, I made my first fabulous 'gourmet' meal... steaks wrapped in proscuitto with a merlot sauce, spiced shrimp, garlic mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus, and stuffed mushrooms. For our anniversary one year, I cooked horseradish encrusted steaks and crab stuffed mushrooms. I am most impressed with myself over the huge pot of gumbo I made for Mardi Gras one year... I combined ingredients from several different recipes and customized it to my taste! Unfortunately, I have trouble cooking eggs over easy most days! The dish that came out the worst of all was a King Cake I made a several Mardi Gras' ago.. it came out hard as a rock even though I followed the instructions! Needless to say, I've shied away from making anything that requires yeast.