I like to cook because I know what goes into the food. My passion is my gigantic dogs. I have a great dane and a newfoundland. I can't imagine life without a couple of dogs. I love to cook healthy, or at least healthier. I love soups in the winter months and salads in the summer. My Mother makes the best pie ever, I have not tackled that yet. Getting my husband to eat a couple of meatless meals a week was huge. When we married he was strickly "meat and potatoes" kind of guy. It took some work but now he loves my "meatless meals" too. I spent hours upon hours making a veggie lasanga. It looked and smelled wonderful. My mother inlaw was comming for dinner that night. It was AWFUL! cardboad tasted better. To this day I have never worked so hard on a meal that was so bland.