I am happily married with two children, who I can't get to try anything but pasta. I am an interior designer by trade and a wanna be chef at home. I LOVE entertaining. I have a nack of creating a meal that doesn't keep you in the kitchen from your guests. I think it comes from my younger years of working as a server and in the kitchen. I love to cook meals FOR a person. I really try to think about what the special guest would really love to eat and I work with that. My specialty is traditional Puerto Rican dishes and my famous ribs that I got off of the Oprah show with Quincy Jones. I really enjoy people enjoying what I have created for them. It makes me happy! Puerto Rican pork shoulder, cheescake, sweet potatoes, apple pie, mashed potatoes, baklava, "white trash" My biggest triumph was my mother-in-law passing the torch for Thanksgiving dinner. Adding sugar to my famous rosemary potatoes instead of salt and actually drying out a precoooked ham...who does that?