I am a stay at home Mom. I have become disabled but am hoping to return to work some day. I do love being at home with my two boys ages 1 and 4. I feel blessed that it has been possible to survive on one income. Sure helps eating at home. Plus you know what is going into your childrens bodies. I have always loved to cook. Starting bring my folks breakfast in bed when I was 6. French toast, huevos ranchero, etc. No cold cereal!(lol) I would buy cook books with my allowance when my elementary school had book fairs. My favorite childhood memory is baking cookies with my Mom. I think you are born with this desire to nurish and make happiness in the kitchen. I don't understand it but it does make a home and family whole. I love making sushi rolls and baking cookies but love cooking all types of food really. I love finding out about new foods to cook that I have never tried before. My grand mother was German and cooked a lot of German dishes but she never shared them with me because I was so young. I did sit in the kitchen with her a lot and remember her making dough for beer rocks. One of the few dishes I liked that she made. Most of the other things were horrible. Especially her cookies. OMG!!! They were so nasty. I think she would just put anything left over in them and they were as hard as rocks. My Mother hates to cook. I didn't inherit my love for cooking. I think maybe it came from my love of art. Cooking is alot like painting and sculpting to me. Bonus is eating it...lol. One of the few dishes grandma made that I liked were her beer rocks. I would have loved to have her beer rock recipe. I tried to duplicate it several times. The filling was easy but her dough was very unique. One time I got over occupied and mistakenly let the dough rise way to long and bingo, it tasted like my Ga Ga's beer rock dough. That was so cool! A mistake that ended in sucess. I can make a mean risotto. Probably this recipe I tried from the food network was my biggest disaster. It was an Emeril recipe. These cookies were very time consuming but beautiful so I wanted to include them in my Christmas cookie trays. It was a recipe for stained glass cutout cookies. They turned out gorgous and were very tasty but the next day all of the stained glass part turned to mushy goo. I was so bummed and what a waste of time! Guess you can only make them and eat them all in one day???