Have had the wonderful opportunity to live in overseas countries for the last 12 years and experienced different foods and types of cooking. I love to bake : my specialties being pastry and cookies. I also love to make meals for our friends with recipes from the countries we've lived in - Beef rouladdin from Germany, perogies and cabbage rolls from Russian (and Ukrainian and Polish) cooks. Still have to work on my Yorkshire pudding. My daughters both like to bake - shortbread cookies from a recipe from a friend in Canada are a family favorite and have even impressed the Brits. We also use a chocolate chip cookie recipe that I found in a magazine 30 years ago. Everyone loves it. Learning how to make German dishes that even impress my step-mother who is a fantastic cook and taught me a lot. And who grew up near Germany so cooks many of the dishes from there herself. When I was about 14 and had started to really like baking I made a chocolate cake from scratch which fell in the middle. So I filled it with frosting and levelled it off. I LOVED it - who wouldn't love all that chocolate?