Have loved to cook even as a child i would watch my parents cook. Manicotti, banana nut bread, chicken fried steak,and sausage and biscuit gravy. making Manicotti with the girls. Keeping the breading on fried chicken....I finally mastered it. When i was 18 i made a recipe that called for chopped bell pepper, i thought it was the same a crushed red pepper so i used that insted.My husband dished up a plate took a bite and immediatly spit it into the garbage.He asked me what i did and i told him. He then gave me a cooking lesson on the diffrences between crushed red pepper and bell pepper. Wow no wonder we got divorced!!!