I'm a mother of 3 and a translator/interpreter (French to English.) Through university (and little beyond) I worked in restaurants and travelled Europe and North America, always discovering new food and drink. Now that I have a family, I loooove my slow cooker! I love to pull the skin off a chicken, rub seasoning all over it and cook it on high for 3-4 hours. No need to go to the local rotisserie anymore! I also like to make soups and pasta dishes and we love seafood, although the quality we can get here in Ontario leaves much to be desired, so I save it up for seaside holidays. Roast chicken and beef, of course, and lamb stew, goulash, pepper pot soup, carrot and ginger soup, beef and barley soup, stuffed canneloni and fried shrimp are all passed down to us and in our regular rotation to be passed down to our own kids. Some things just never go out of style; nearly every day through the winter I have a pot of soup on the stove. I do best with meals that cook a long time, except of course for stir-fries and pad thai. Early on in our marriage we had both sets of parents over for supper. The men like their roast beef rare, the women well-done, so I cooked two roasts and staggered the time. Well I didn't have my eye on the time, I guess, because at serving time my husband opened the pot and said, "Looks like our choices are well-done or weller-done!" :-D