My favorite kind of cuisine to cook is Italian...it's who I am. I enjoy baking and when I cook I usually mix several recipes to suit my families taste. My favorite cooking traditions revolve around our Easter baking traditions (ciatones, cavizones, easter breads, biscotti etc...). They remind me of holiday gatherings at my grandma's. I also loved helping my grandma make homemade cavatelli and homemade bread. As a kid, it was amazing to watch her pour all the ingredients on her kitchen table and use her hands to mix everything together then use her handmade rolling pin to roll her dough out. I've tried it, but I like my ingredients in a bowl (so much easier to clean up :) Cooking for my sister's baby shower and cooking for a charity dinner. Both involved italian food as the main dish with several appetizers, sides and desserts. Ugh! The first was an attempt at spaghetti squash.Won't try yhat again! My most recent was cupcakes for my son's school project. They involved hiding gummy worms in the cupcakes, nothing like the taste of burnt gummy worms. Luckily, I only made half the batch with the gummy worms the rest turned out great so we frosted them and put the gummy worms on top!