I am a "first you take a stick of butter" cook with an emphasis on emulating the comfort foods & desserts of my childhood. I had the best teachers--my grandmother who made the best fruit pies & sugar cookies and my mother who inspired & encouraged my love of cooking. I love living in Oklahoma and try to incorporate my state's local, organic products in all my baking. I have a small but growing customer base with my bakery & catering business, For Goodness Sake. I enjoy being in the kitchen with my daughter, who also helps with the catering. I bake jumbo muffins, cinnamon rolls, scones, and pies for a local cafe, and specialty cupcakes for showers and birthdays. On my days off, I love to bake all kinds of breads and experiment with new recipes, especially from Allrecipes and from my favorite blogs. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, so preparing the traditional meal is something I keenly anticipate every year. This past Thanksgiving my DIL cooked the entire meal, and it was fantastic! Favorite Christmas traditions are to bake my grandmother's sugar cookies and gooseberry pie, as well as Danish Kringles from a recipe given to me by my junior high home economics teacher. My triumphs are when a customer praises my food, and when my husband says "wow, this is great!" One Thanksgiving when I was sick (that was my excuse), I forgot to put sugar in the pumpkin pie! My DH put whipped cream on it and ate it anyway.