Mom to four kids - almost all teenagers! Anything and love a challenge Going out for Chinese food on holidays - no really - we all got up so early then slept the day away and it was too late to cook the ham so we went out for Buffet. It was great. We have only done it twice but we call it our "tradition" Trying new recipes with no qualms...I tell my musical kids that it is like sight reading music - except my mixer is my back up. Oh for the first five years of marraige I could not make rice. Finally having a baby and she loved it - I had to master it. Now I cook all kinds of grains and even grind my own flour. I also taught myself to become a successful bread baker. I couldnt find a rustic bread I wanted years ago so I learned. Then my carboholic daughter was eating only bread. In my quest for low carb bread that was good tasting and inexpensive I started grinding flour myself and making wonderful light loaves of bread. Made a lot of patio stones before the beautiful loaves appeared!