24 year old off and on again student (education costs toooo much) who successfully baked her first cake at 8 as a Mother's Day gift. Mother is a professional cook. My entire family cooks and cooks well. Started out cooking soul food as my ideas about healthy living changed so did the way I cooked. I can literally cook any southern dish created but I am constantly looking for new recipes to try and reinvent to my liking. Never uses a box for anything! Motto: First time follow the recipe...second time follow your taste buds. I love to bake...especially homemade pies and bars. Favorite meat is pork...no other meat is so versatile in its flavor. Weirdly enough I love to cook very involved meals. My mother and I are in an eternal battle over whose peach cobbler is the best...mine is of course. Also...everyday is Sunday dinner. Bakes first cake in 3rd grade all by myself...Got in trouble though because I did it without permission...probaly why I still remember. I even made the frosting...and still got in trouble. Almost set my first apartment on fire by not cooking but reheating A BOX of leftover pizza. Instead of dirtying up a pan I decided to reheat the whole box in the oven. Almost set my p[arents house on fire when I dropped the ovenmitt onto the oven coils and left it there until I carried my cookies to the counter.