I love cooking for my man! He is a very picky eater and I enjoy finding things he has never tried or thought he didn't like and making him fall in love with them. Most of my close friends are very accomplished cooks as well so it is fun to come up with new stuff to wow them with. Mexican, Italian, good old down home cookin', cakes and cookies. At last years Thanksgiving dinner my brother leaned to his wife and whispered "this is the best Thanksgiving dinner I've ever had", she promptly repeated it aloud at the table to his dismay but I'm glad she shared because it made all the work worth it. Somehow I pull it off but about once a year I decide to make a crazy elaborate cake. I end up staying up for two days straight to finish it in time. Maybe once I will decide to do something I can finish in a day but what fun would that be.