I cook mainly for my family of 7. I occasionally cook for my extended family and in-laws. My mother-in-law inspires me to try different recipes. My husband loves food and so I try to find new and interesting things to try on him. My children love anything that is pasta but I would love to try new things on them as well. I am of Polynesian heritage and so I love my Polynesian food. I love to cook pasta and anything that my family will just eat up! My mom always cooked Polynesian foods that I have tried myself to cook with a twist. Polynesians cook with taro, yukka, corned beef, plantain bananas, seafood, steamed taro leaves and pork. For the first time in my married life I cooked Thanksgiving dinner all by myself November 2003 since my mom was out of town visiting my sister in Long Beach. I used my rotisserie to make the turkey. I injected cranberries and pineapples into the turkey and it came out beautiful! Thankfully rest of my recipes were taken from allrecipes.com and I am grateful that they all worked out and everyone was pleased, especially me! I attempted to make a cake from scratch and I chose Red Velvet cake. I couldn't for the life of me find more than 2oz of red food coloring anywhere since the recipe called for 8oz! I also ended up over cooking the cake about 10 minutes and it came out a little dry. The end result of the cake was a little dry and not red enough but I was satisfied because I could actually make a cake from scratch!