Hi there! My name is Olivia and I'm currently living in California with my fiance. I've enjoyed cooking since I was a little girl where I would sit and watch either my father or my grandmother work their ways around the kitchen. I'm thinking about taking the next step to making what I love to do a career! Wish me luck=) I don't really have a favorite. My boyfriend always wants me to make my sticky fried rice, or my spicy tacos, a favorite for him. I enjoy trying out new recipes and tweeking them once I've tried the original, to my likeness. Being able to recreate a recipe and see others enjoy it always puts a smile on my face=) Some of my favorite family cooking traditions would be chicken adobo, pigs ear kilawin, seafood pansit, beef tapa and lumpias (I'm half Filipino). As for the other side of me (Mexican and Pennsylvanian Dutch) my favorites would have to be sopas, green enchiladas, carnitas, and my grandmother's famous califlower patties... yum!!! Triumphs... I would have to say my sticky fried rice, my spicy tacos, my shitake mushroom and pork stirfry, my pork and shrimp lumpias, my chunky corn chowder, my spicy adobo shrimp with cilantro rice, and my famous sweet deviled eggs. mmm... I'm making myself hungry=) Cooking tragedies... eggs benedict... lol the eggs came out horrible the very first time I tried it out!!! I also tried making a cream sauce and didn't have any whipping cream so I tried substituting coffee creamer... yuck!!! I had to throw that out... I'll never try something like that again!!!!