I'm a 28y/o stay-home mommy of 2 & college student and I love to cook! I love to try new recipes and experiment on making my own dishes. I also love to read, watch movies, dine out, and just being with my family. My favorite things to cook are mainly pasta dishes, asian dishes that I picked up in Guam & Taiwan, and poultry/seafood. I like to keep it simple as possible w/o sacrificing taste (i.e. buying pre-cut vegetables) and to save time. Now & then I like to try gourmet dishes or something more complicated or extravagant. I enjoy the satisfaction of cooking something that people really like and want more of. I love making chicken dishes as well & always looking for new or different ways to make chicken. Growing up I loved to watch and help my mom cook and bake. Now I ask for family recipes to make for my own family or people I know would love them as much as I did. I also like to think up combinations of ingredients to experiment with until I come up with something yummy! I found a seafood chowder recipe on here that I tweaked a bit and it came out fantastic! I made a huge pot that I intended to share with a couple of friends when they came over but my husband (who is not a big fan of cream based soups/sauces), and my kids devoured it pretty quick. It was my 1st time making a chowder and was quite proud it turned out so well. I also learned to make sushi and after making it for my friends, we would have sushi parties where I would teach them and we all make our own, along with asian cucumber salad. I recently tried making lo mein and I thought it was terrible! Turned out I used the wrong kind of noodles!! They were the mushiest noodles ever! Now when it comes to making noodle dishes like that, i'll stick to spaghetti noodles!!