i like to cook, but i have to be in the mood for it. i love to follow recipes. i do not generally make them up myself. i have tried that in the past and it did not work out well. i come from a family that is cooks also my favorite things to cook is things that are easy. is thanksgiving lunch/dinner/leftovers. as long as i can remember me and my 2 sister go to my moms house and help her cook thanksgiving food on thanksgiving. we get up around 8 and start cooking and it is usually done around 11 or 12. now we usually cook the same food every year. so hopefully evenually i will remimber the recipes. i can cook a mean apple pie. that is the only thing i can think of that sticks out. once when i was in my early 20's and a newlywed. i thried to make this stuff out of ground meat and other stuff ( i can not remember what other stuff it was) and the end result looked like dog food and tasted really nasty. from then on i only use recipes.