I am SAHM Army wife-so I have lived all around the world. We have recently moved back to the USA after living in Japan for 6 years. I have 2 children. One will eat anything and one will almost nothing! I love to decorate my house and I spent all summer landscaping our yard. I am also my kid's #1 fan at all their sporting events! I am called the Casserole Queen in our house. I love the simplicity of casseroles. I am also trying to use my slow cooker more. I am from Oklahoma and we eat a lot of beef (I am from a stockyard town-that means super fresh and cheap beef!). I love anything with beef but I am trying to cook more with chicken and would LOVE to add more fish (so would my fish loving husband!). Using this great website, I have found 2 new chicken recipes that even my picky son loves! And, I love to bake. I live in Apple Country, so I have been baking with apples this fall. Again, I have found several incredible recipes at Allrecipes! Most of the traditions (like many families) are centered around Christmas. I make a great breakfast casserole and rum cake. This year, we are going to make my mother-in-law's bon-bons. She passed away before I could learn to make her bon-bons. I can't wait to make this our family tradition. My once a month cooking class that I taught to Japanese housewives. It was great fun. The fun was trying new things (for them and sometimes me!), putting together themed menus and being with fun Japanese ladies. I can only thing of one real diaster (a tropical dessert that had a spicy element-thai chili sauce). The fun thing was finding great recipes and then hoping that I could get the ingredients needed at my commissary (military supermarket). I was not always successful and then I had to become creative! We cooked corned beef and soda bread, all American BBQ, traditional Thanksgiving dinner, but the best for a autumn menu that used root and autumn vegetables. It was delicious! There were so many menus that is hard to remember them all. My husband lovingly calls it Poop pie. I tried to make a real from scratch pumpkin pie from fresh pumpkin. Did you realize that fresh pumpkin can be stringy and for some reason (once cooked) isn't orange. Hence the name Poop Pie.