I like to cook fast and easy things, but if I have time I can spend hours cooking something new or an old favourite food. I love creme caramelle but haven't cooked it myself much. anything involving quince, most leek recipes, Colcannon, grilled cheese on toast, pork chops w. fennel and juniper berries, Chinese "crystal" chicken, most recipes for lentils, black-eyed peas, any kind of pulses, roast vegetables soups, French dressing w. lots of garlic, pancakes (crepes) w. lemon and sugar, rare roast beef, rare steak w. Victor Hugo sauce, always having 3 vegetables when we eat meat feijoa jelly, various eggplant dishes, banana cake, broccoli w. hollandaise sauce, salade boulestin, apricot jam, French bread sliced 3/4 way through w. mozzarella slices in between and anchovy + garlic sauce poured over it - baked in a hot oven my first packet cake - 1 inch high round the edge, half an inch high in the middle, bright pink and dark green icing