I'm 24 years old, still living at home with my parents and my sister who recently graduated from college. I have an amazing boyfriend who LOVES FOOD. I'm out of work right now, but using the time to teach myself how to cook. I want to be ready and armed with recipes I already know and love for when I reenter the workforce (hopefully sooner rather than later!) My parents, sister, and sometimes my boyfriend are my guinea pigs for new recipes, but they (usually) enjoy them... luckily we haven't had to throw any out and order pizza lol. I'm always looking for simple, but delicious dishes that I will still have time to make once I go back to work. I'm a very picky eater, so really anything that I actually end up liking! My mom is an excellent baker so I love when she bakes (especially around the holidays!!). She also makes waffles almost every Sunday mmmm :o) Anything that everyone in my house enjoys (we all have very different tastes). In high school, my parents were away for a weekend and my sister and I decided to cook dinner for ourselves. We tried to make mashed potatoes. So after we baked them (in the microwave probably, and probably not for long enough) we chopped them up and put them in a bowl with some milk and butter. We tried to mash them with the hand mixer, but they were so hard that they didn't mash very well. We ended up with what I would describe as a potato-soup like liquid with hard chunks of potatoes.