I've been actively cooking recipes from this site since 2003. I only recently discovered the RE & the picture submission option. I've been having great fun with both features :) Desserts & yeast breads, primarily because those are what I do best. I despise making cookies & I used to dislike eating them too (yeah, I know...) but since quitting smoking I have discovered I like to eat ALL SORTS OF STUFF I used to not want anything to do with. It's a give & take--the best I can say for it is that it has expanded my palate! LOVE: Some people say it with flowers. Some people say it with presents. My family says it with FOOD. That has been our tradition for a long time. My mother taught us (her 2 daughters and 1 son) to learn to cook for other people and not just yourself, to do it well & to do it often, and we are continuing that tradition as best we can :) Shortly after my husband & I bought our home, my sister & her family moved away. About a year later, when they were home for a visit, we had all 4 of them + my parents up to my house for dinner & to see the property. I made fettucine alfredo with 2 desserts--a Bananas Foster pie and a Chocolate Irish Cream pie. I've since lost the book with the pie recipes (...Yeah. I *know*.)but I haven't forgotten seeing them all GORGE themselves on alfredo sauce & delicious homemade pies. My nephew (on Ritalin, which has appetite suppression as a side effect) had THREE helpings, a clear sign of extraordinary tastiness! I tried a new alfredo recipe from here, which involved zucchini. It was absolutely AWFUL. I'm sure I overcooked the zucchini (nothing on earth should taste like THAT...) but that can't have been the only problem with the recipe. The look on my husband's face when he tasted it was priceless, I've never seen such a look from him that didn't involve spiders! I also recently served a chicken that I guess I had temp'd wrong, because the inside bled! This yielded another spidery-expression from the husband. I finished cooking it to great success though :)