Light Italian is a favorite thing to cook, I guess before I started cooking in earnest I thought Italian always meant heavy fatty creamy sauces and heavy pastas and have happily found that there are a lot of lighter Italian dishes. I like a lot of the lighter recipes that Giada De Laurentis (sp?) does on the Food Network, I also like to bake many different kinds of cookies from offbeat websites found in Google. I am also finding out now that some of the recipes in the Williams Sonoma website are really good too....... Two words to describe my tragedy: Tofu Stroganoff!! When I first started really cooking in earnest, I thought I might like to be a vegetarian. Too many all veggie dishes always seemed to be made with Soy Sauce and Ginger, there didn't seem to be much variety. So I thought maybe if I tried Tofu dishes. Not much variety there either from what I saw. When including chicken, fish, etc, seems that there is more variety in recipes to choose from.