I was amazed that the clip art that allrecipes provided for the picture on the profile could bear such a striking resemblance to me. Just kidding! I love allrecipes! I'm ashamed to tell you how many cookbooks I have lining my bookshelfs and am still drawn to purchase more, but when I want to try something that I need a recipe for, I'll run to the allrecipes site. Love to bake, make mostly quick & easy for dinner, but if I have all the ingredients for a better-than-hamburger-helper meal I enjoy that too. I love making a yam casserole for our family Thanksgiving git together 'cuz no one else in my family likes it, so I make one that I really like and pig out on it the week after. When we get together for New Years we have pork & saurkraut with a big bowl of mashed potatoes. My mom grew up in Punxsatawny, PA, in coal country, out IN the country. She tells me that her mom could take a possum and make it taste mighty fine. Well my mom is just as good a cook or better than my grandma was. One day she told me that I cooked just like her (my mom, that is). That was a triumph to me. I wanted to try a corn muffin recipe for a family dinner, so I tried it out here at home. I decided to have the muffins for dinner and prepared a pot of chili to complement them. I used a chili mix package of mysterious origin in my cupboard that looked like it had been in there since '87. Seasonings don't go bad, right? Not only was the chili practically inedible but the corn muffins were pretty horrendous. Before dinner my daughter saw the empty package from the chili seasoning on the counter and asked if I wanted to throw it away. I said no,I wanted to wait and see if we liked the chili and I'd buy it again. LOL!!