I am a 40 something mother of 2 high school students. I owned a catering business for 20 years so I am used to cooking for a crowd. I am very busy with high school sports year around so I cook alot ahead of time. We camp and hike most weekends in the summer and fall if the sport schedule allows. Almost everything but I do not bake well. Homemade pasta and sauces made from the produce grown locally. We have eaten from the farmers market for years so we eat alot of fresh foods. We are lucky in Northern California with a very long growing season. Grilling. There is nothing that I wont grill. I tried making crab cakes for Easter and my neighbor said it was so bad that he thought it was a joke. He eats dinner at our house alot. It really was that bad. The one tragedie that really stands out is the day I had a house full of teenagers and made a pot of lentil soup. I am not sure what I did wrong but four starving teenage males only ate the sour cream off the top & left all the soup. I have not lived that down yet.