I am a 29 year old married woman (no kids) who loves to experiment with different spices and create hybrid recipes. I don't like being bound by the rules and restrictions of a plain black and white recipe, and measurements scare me, so I eyeball almost everything and make many substitutions. I've had luck with my techniques so far! I love "dump cooking". Basically, this means taking a bunch of staple ingredients (starch, meat, veggies - at least one of each works great), adding random seasonings and ending up with dinner. I think I inherited this from my mother. Because I don't cook from recipes most times, I end up forgetting how I made something, which upsets my husband! My mother is from New Orleans, and I have yet to master the art of Cajun cooking, but I am working on it. My father always makes the stuffing for Thanksgiving from an old family recipe, and his specialty is Maryland crab cakes - yum! My husband calls everything a triumph, but I think he's biased! ;) I'm not so good at baking. I hate measuring, and so I always end up with not quite what I expected. The results are normally edible, though not always!