I am a college student studying child development, its been a long road to my career choice but here we are. I have a wonderful boyfriend who has spent 6 years in the Army and 1 year in the Army Reserves. We have two adorable pugs, Mac & Zoe, who are like our children. Very soon we will be making the big move to Alabama so the bf can go to flight school, therefore I need to brush up on my southern cooking! I LOVE baking. I hadn't really started cooking until I got my first apartment a few years ago and slowly but surely I am becoming more adventurous. Luckily, my boyfriend will eat anything. My grandma is a whiz in the kitchen and I remember always helping her out when we visited but she is also very strict. So many times my grandma would make something delicious and I'd ask to lick the bowl, but was never allowed to! Now whenever I am making a dessert I always finish off the bottom of the bowl, take that grandma :) Making a wonderful Lemon Meringue that my boyfriend swore I bought. No real tragedies, nothing inedible. But I did recently make Shepherd's Pie and the recipe called for some chopped onions in the potatoes as well as in the meat mixture...somehow I read it wrong and put all the onions in the potatoes, and we ended up with uncooked crunchy onions throughout the top layer, it was interesting.