A creative person who is always trying something new in any creative field. I treat every experience as an artful one. My most recent love has been cooking and baking. My constant love is the visual arts (which means food presentation is a big one for me!). My fiance and I have two teeny dogs that are possibly more food crazy than we are...maybe. I am also an incredibly picky eater (not near as bad as when I was a child, however) but love to try new, and sometimes strange, combinations of ingredients. Pasta (always brown rice pasta), Wok-fried dishes, Fish, and Lamb. I also make amazing salads (usually with spinach). My parents are both very good cooks. My mother's classic dishes include an aromatic "Meat Pie", her kid friendly "Cream of Tuna" (a creamy sauce poured over buttery toast), and her "Chicken Spaetzle" where the spaetzle is more like dumplings than noodles...mmmm! My dad is a maritimer and has made the classic "Jig's Dinner" often during the holidays (something I didn't appreciate as much as a child, but the salt beef is amazing!). He's also created his very own pasta recipes which include a creamy red wine sauce of smoked salmon, scallops and baby shrimp (I should post!) and makes an excellent "Noodles Romano", a commonly requested "birthday dinner" of mine:) I'm not sure who started it, but our family also looked forward to a tasty comfort dish of Chicken Hearts with Potatoes drizzled in a Dark Gravy. If I'd never tried chicken hearts, this might make me squeamish, but they are good! Well...making my mom's meat pie for the first time and seeing it turn out was definitely a triumph. It is a simple recipe, but the pastry needs to be perfect. My biggest triumphs, however, are when my fiance gushes over a recipe that I concocted on my own. This is becoming more frequent! I think these were many before I learned how to properly measure flour. One of my first tragedies (and probably the most heartbreaking) is when I was around 11 or 12 and my mom allowed me to cook a full pork chop dinner all by myself for the family...to be ready when dad got home from work. She told me what to do, and I did it, and I did a good job. Dad was late coming home, however, and since mom wasn't around I had to decide what to do with the chops. I left them in the oven because I didn't want them to be cold (I was really excited for the meal to be perfect for dad). Of course, overcooked pork chops are probably more difficult to eat than any other overcooked meat. Everybody was very sweet about it though; we just ended up using a tonne of applesauce for moisture:)