Dinners, any desserts, pancakes, soups, anything with cheese Making sugar cookies right before Christmas and then decorating them with the family. Cooking the turkey and everything else for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, and bacon for dinner (sometimes). Having Grandmother right there to teach you how to make something from scratch. Cooking my first Thanksgiving turkey-they loved it. Finding enough things to cook to keep my toddler satisfied. I recently tried to make Philly cheesesteak sandwiches for my hubby and they weren't that great (to me), but he ate it.