Currently living Texas with my awesome husband and a pug named Sir Franklin Reginald Herbert. We've been married for 2 years; I'm 20, he's 27. He owns his own business selling game servers online and works from home. I'm going to school for Nursing. I spend most of my free time being lazy, looking up new recipes, and talking on the phone with my mom. I love trying new recipes! At least one or two a week is what I normally try. Chocolate chip cookie recipes, Italian recipes, and Asian recipes are my favorite. My grandparents on my mother's side are Swedish, and so we regularly make a dish called 'palt' or 'blood palt,' traditionally a common poor family's meal, consisting of flour, liver, and ground raw potatoes for the outside dumpling, and the inside of the boiled dumpling is salt pork and ham. It's a meal that takes time to grow on newcomers. Cooking an excellent, simple yet delicious meal for our foodie friends. (Something that, to be honest, I have yet to do.) Once, when I was in 8th grade, I decided to make a box of brownies. (Classy, I know.) There was no vegetable oil in the house, so I thought "Olives are vegetables, why wouldn't olive oil work?" Needless to say, the olive oil brownies were amazingly nasty.