I am a nurse and and artist. I love to cook for my family and their many friends. We hunt, fish raise rabbits and Quail. We harvest and eat everything we raise or hunt, so I have an extensive recipe book for wild meat and birds. Mexican and italian style foods are my favorite. I love to bake and use my bread machine to take the work out of bread making. I do not bake in the machine I hand form the bread. We get the kids together Sundays, and all holidays. Usually deciding on the menu in advance and everyone participates in the preperation of the meals. Bread. It took almost 20 loaves of bread before I got one to come out. That is when I quit cooking in the bread machine and started to hand form the bread. Again bread. Try serving a loaf of bread, that when you cut it open the middle runs out. Yucky.