I am a proud Mississippi Univ. for Women culinary graduate that appears on a local television show twice a week demonstrating easy, delicous recipes with working moms in mind. Being a stay at home military wife (when I am not doing my show), I love to create in the kitchen. Motherhood has removed some of the more elaborate, time-consuming recipes that I made while still at the university, but the skills and techniques are still there. Some of my favorite ingredients are any seafood, fresh herbs, butter, and heavy cream. My family is full of cooks. Every holiday is a festival of food, fun, and tons of cousins, aunts, uncles, and random people that just appear. Graduating with honors with a B.S. in culinary arts was my biggest triumph. That and surviving an internship in Nantucket for 5 months. Many years ago, I tried to impress a boy my making stuffed chicken breasts. Unfortunately, I used colored toothpicks to secure them after rolling up the stuffing. Who knew the color bleeds? I once the picks were removed after baking, they looked like little, polka-dotted clown shoes.