I 've gone from not being allowed to cook as a kid, to loving to cook for my family for 25+ yrs, to now trying to cook for two- we have a lot of leftovers! I love trying & collecting new recipes. I've been known to scare my family with a few strange meals, but only a few, truely unedible ones. I love making hearty main dishes for a crowd, unique appetizers for parties, baked specialties for family and new crockpot meals. I recently began cooking prime rib for New Year's and it has become a family favorite. My step-son regularly requests a favorite, family, veal dish that was passed down by my grandmother. I'm always asked to bring the potato salad to all my inlaw gatherings. It might be the dead of winter in upstate NY, but potato salad is on the menu! Another best- loved dish is my grandma's scalloped potatoes. Luckily, she taught me how to make them before she passed. I blamed it on pregnancy, but I once left the flour out of the scalloped potatoes. They were a soupy disaster, so I quickly poured the liquid off and made a cream sauce. It wasn't great, but it saved the meal.