My Mom raised me in the kitchen and was an excellent cook which gave me a foundation to build on. I have the instincts to know what to do and how to make something taste good and I also have the training to make things I would have never attempted growing up. I love cooking! Italian food, salads, sauces, eggs, pasta. Cookies! Lefsa, sandwiches, soups. I made a great pasta carbonara the other day. I really like some of my strange, but tasty salads. I make a good combination of salty/sweet/tangy. Meats and baking. I tend to overcook meat and don't really like baking at all--it's all that measuring that is just too structured for me.