I am a mother to 4 grown children (1 boy, 3 girls). I am constantly entertaining and always looking for new ideas and recipes to try. I enjoy wine tasting and theme parties, so I try to outdo myself at each dinner, which gets difficult. I joined this site to find new and refreshing ways to prepare my favorite foods. I enjoy cooking seafood, chicken and spicing up vegetable dishes and salads. For Christmas Eve every year I make a pot of homemade chicken noodle soup, either beef stew, soup or chili and fresh homemade bread, a large salad and dessert. Definitely a change from the normal holiday food, but my family loves this hearty family tradition. I guess my triumphs would have to be the various theme dinners I host regularly for our friends. We've had greek, french, italian, mexican japanese and even a "white trash" dinner party. All were a great success! The first year I made my own turkey I put it in the oven before going to bed and when I woke up the next morning all of the meat had fallen off the bone leaving a carcass! I quickly deboned the turkey and threw out the carcass before anyone could see what had happened! Luckily, the turkey was moist and tender.