I lost everything in hurricane Katrina, but I'm rebuilding my life and going to college. Life is better than ever! I love to cook creole and cajun favorites, and I love to bake bread. I love making hors d'oeuvres for parties. While my children were growing up, we had family night once a week, when we would rent a movie and have fondue, or hors d'oeuvres in our living room! Now that they are grown, they have fond memories of our family nights. I can be very creative when it comes to buffet recipes. I once made a corned beef/cheese ball without a recipe for a Christmas family get together, and there wasn't a crumb of it left. I wish I could remember how I made it! :-( I once put ingredients in my bread machine for a loaf of bread, which turned out as hard as a brick! I threw it away, only realizing too late that I had thrown away the paddle to the bread machine, which was stuck inside the "brick". LOL.