I like to cook and enjoy trying new dishes for my family. Some family members are more daring than others, but as long as they'll give it a try, I'm game! Chicken, steak, salmon, salads, and pasta, pasta, pasta! I love to cook with my family. My hubby is great on the grill and we work well together in the kitchen. Since my kids were small, we have enjoyed baking together and it's a sweet memory I cherish. I have been lucky. I have several recipes my family requests for birthdays, holidays, and 'just because'. Some pasta dishes, chicken dishes, meatloaf, cheesy potatoes, and a couple of desserts. I love it when they request a special dish. :) My hubby STILL comments on the beautiful strawberry and gelatin pie I made when we were first married. It was a thing of beauty. And it was as hard as concrete. We couldn't cut into it nor get it out of the baking dish. Even when we threw it in the back yard as a frisbee, it didn't come out of the dish. We threw the whole thing out. I also made a fish dish that obviously had a misprint in the recipe, but I was too much of a novice to know. I covered the fish with 1/2 cup of parsley. It tasted like wet grass.