I am 27 have never been around very serious cooks until my twenties. I am super-duper particular about what I eat. So what I do is take the a little instinct and combine the best of my favorite recipes and my favorite ingredients to create only the best foods! Things that taste fresh. We have none, thats why I am kind of breaking the mold in my family. 90% of all recipes I try for the first time are awesome. My Dad wants me to go gourmet. Thats pretty fun. I made my "famous chili" for a huge group of people, that I had never met, in a new crock pot, that belonged to a friend of mine. The light came on and so I thought the crock pot was on. I found out at the very end that it wasn't on and my chili was runny. They said they liked it, but I was dissappointed.