I am a busy stay at home mom of 3 kids: 10, 8 & 2. I love to cook and explore new flavors & tastes without my kids knowing anything has changed in their favorite recipes. I enjoy adding shredded zucchini to brownies, flax seed to their smoothies, adding apple sauce to muffins in place of oil/butter, etc. :) I enjoy cooking from scratch: I made my own salsa, I can my own fruits & veggies and I make my own croutons even. I love that this website gives me so many different options for exploration :) I love making appetizers, main dishes, breads, snack foods, and mostly desserts. We usually have dessert of some sort every night, not necessarily fattening desserts, sometimes it's a bowl of yogurt & fruit. My family and I are an active family & enjoy being outdoors, so I love foods that travel well. My daughter loves to help me cook in the kitchen. I'm trying to get my son to have an interest in the kitchen, but he pretty much sticks to watching! :) We love to do something in the kitchen for every holiday. My kids love having heart shaped foods for Valentines, green foods for St. Patricks Day, dying Easter eggs, making Christmas cookies & candies, and carving pumpkins every year. We really spend alot of time in the kitchen together. I love cooking recipes and tweaking them to my own liking and then perfecting them. I guess my one cooking triumph recently was winning a blue ribbon at the County Fair for my 'tweaked' banana muffins. :) I really don't have any tragedies, though I've had my share of messing up recipes. One time I completely forgot to add eggs in my muffins, and I realized they turned out much better without them!! :)