I'm a high school stdent in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) academy. I'm a nerd, and proud of it. But besides that stuff, I love to read and write fiction (hopefully someday I will get paid for this), play my violin, and cook. I love to bake desserts. Cookies, cakes, pies, you name it, but my specialty is in cookies. Snickerdoodles, to be precise. :) But when I'm not baking, I like to experiment with main dishes. My mom never really knew how to cook until she met my dad. He taught her how, and then he stopped cooking. A few years later, mom introduced me to the kitchen, and now she doesn't cook anymore. Are you sensing a pattern here? When I won first place in a snickerdoodle off in 7th grade!!! When I was first starting to cook, and we didn't have any more molasses. I was trying to make ginger cookies, and I used brown sugar and honey as a substitute. The resulting cookies tasted right, but they were hard enough to break a tooth on. And then there was that time when I designed my own pumpkin carving, and I was so proud of the elaborate picture, that I waited too long to use the pumpkin parts for my pumpkin cookies. The whole batch was wasted...