I'm a new wife who's trying to improve her cooking skills for when there is actually a full house to feed :)
My cooking triumphs
I can finally cook a whole chicken without a recipe and get broth from it as well.
My cooking tragedies
I believed a recipe when it told me to let boil for 30 minutes. When I returned to the kitchen, the entire kitchen was a foot thick of smoke and my dish, well, I'm just not into that special charcoal flavor :(