I love to see smiles on the family and friends faces when they eat what I have cooked. My greatest influence for cooking was my grandmother. My favorite foods to cook are Chicken, pork, beef. My favorite recipes are my own. I adapt my own recipes from recipe books(I read the recipe and delete some items and add my own). My family eats anything I put in front of them. If they don't like what I've fixed they tell me, but they eat it anyway. Making a Cheesecake for the first time! Canning vegetable from the garden properly! 1. not canned some veggies properly the first time. 2. forgot some ingredients in one of my dishes (I got sidetracked and forgot what I was doing!) 3. added too much spices to some of my dishes. 4. used the wrong flour when making bread machine bread. 5. improperly measured regular yeast when making bread machine bread. (it came-out flat bread). everyone laughed!