I'm a mother of 2, pushing 50 fast and still can't classify myself as an expert on this profile. Do we ever reach that? People do love my cooking, especially my husband, of course the kids are picky. They will have to deal with it! I have an artsy side, so I love to make things look good. If I had more time, I'd like to decorate cakes... My favorite foods to cook are BBQ, (less clean up) and italian and mexican dishes. Thanksgiving meals and Christmas cookies. As the baby of 5, all the girls had a job in the kitchen for these holidays.(that's sexist I know,but that is how it was.) As a young kid it started with folding napkins and setting the table. As I got older, I could move the food to platters, etc. and when you were living on your own you brought your own dish to share. Mom was an excellent cook, she would not let anyone bother her recipes or help with her cooking and her food was so good, we didn't mind. Now we call all the time for advice. She is 86 and still a great cook! Don't really have a recipe I made up or anything, but one time I won a dessert contest with a Pampered Chef recipe called the Red,White and Blueberry pie. This pie is to die for. A soup recipe for split pea that called for cinnamon. The ingredients sounded so wierd that I thought it would be good. I couldn't even eat it. Bless my husband though, he will eat anything.