Full time worker and mom to 2 sous chefs. More likely to create something from ingredients I have on hand than to go out and buy special ingredients for a particular recipe. Trying to grow more food in our garden and buy from local farms as much as possible. At the moment, anything involving root vegetables. We got a winter share from a local CSA so I am finding fun things to do with beets, celeriac, rutabaga, etc. Thanksgiving at our house. Birthdays--always make cakes and a special dinner. West African foods like fried plantains, peanut butter sauce, zame, akara, fonio and ginger juice. Roasted vegetables from this site--one of those small, everyday triumphs. Learned the technique from the recipe and have been adapting ingredients ever since. Slow cooker root vegetable tagine from this site--I overdid the spices and it was inedible....and I usually eat everything I make no matter how bad it is!