I was brought up cooking Italian. I enjoy putting foods together. I do my own spice mixes, marinades, and sauces. I use wines and other alcoholic products to marinade or flavor things. Seafood, pasta, vegetables, pork, sausages, lamb, chicken, cassoulets (sp.). My mother was a great cook. Herbs and spices were her legacy. She could "clean out the refrigerator" and you'd think you were in a gourmet restaurant. Not getting obese. Burned the hell out of one of my good pans one day.... The computer did it!