I'm 26 and have always enjoyed cooking. My grandmother is responisble for my love of cooking. I loved watching and helping her in the kitchen when I was little. Now that I have started cooking and experimenting alot more on my own, we get together and trade recipes. Grandmother's chicken and dumplings... I have finally perfected them and they are alomst as good as hers. I try to cook healthy, but I'm a southern girl...end of story! At christmas, my whole family gets together and makes DOZENS of every kind of cookie you can imagine. Then we spend the next two weeks complaining about the unimaginable amount of cookies we have all eaten. : ) After many glue-like attempts.... milk gravy, my gandmothers dumplings, anything that people go back for seconds of. : ) I once had a very tragic inncident with VERY hot grease, squash, a plastic strainer, and the fire alarm. : ( Still to this day have not tried to fry squash.