My first cooking experience was when I was 6 years old. My father found my grandmother's 7-Up pound cake recipe and stayed in the kitchen while I whipped it up. It came out great, and I've been the family baker ever since! I hate fast food. I do not eat pork or red meat, so I have to do a lot of cooking at home. That's even more so because I live in the South. Hunni, let me tell you, Southern people will put bacon on just about anything! If I want gumbo or lasagna, I have to learn to make it myself... and I've made a lot of friends that way ;-) Turkey/ veggie main dishes. I try to eat pretty healthy. I use my oven A LOT! Southern. We fry everything. I'm breaking the trend a bit :-) I taught my sister, who is 8 years older than me, how to boil water. Now you can't keep her out of the kitchen. LOL! I didn't believe vanilla extract was flamable at first. I poured some into the metal cap asn set it ablaze. When I tried to blow out the flame, I knocked over the cap and "flambe"ed my counter. Yeah... not fun.