I love to cook and often I am asked to help others learn to cook. Even simple meals are fun for me. I hope one day to have my own food service establishment. Anything southern, vegetarian and seafood cooking also interest me. My mother taught me to cook at a very young age and I made my first entire meal one day when my parents were working outside and I was only nine years old. Teaching my sons to cook has been my greatest triumph. They are both comfortable in the kitchen and love to experiment in the kitchen. My youngest is a chef and attributes his success to having been taught to cook at a young age. As I said before I learned to cook at a young age. My biggest problem was remembering when you use self-rising flour you don't use baking powder or salt and one day I asked my mom while she was more than half asleep and she told me that I should use the powder and salt...I made a cake that the dog wouldn't even eat. I have never forgotten again not to use the powder and salt.