I am a single gal who is looking to lead a healthier lifestyle. I love to bake and am building my cooking skills daily. To date, my favorite foods to make are fruit crisps and pastries. I am working on increasing my healthy foods repetoire to include more veggie-based foods. We always had home-cooked meals for birthdays and they were always simple fare, but excellent and flavorful. I also loved baking with my mom, from my first pineapple upside down cake at eight to the cream-puff recipe I altered for my own tastes at twenty-eight. THe first cake I baked by myself. I made a banana cake and misread the ingredients. I used a tablespoon of salt and baking soda, instead of a teaspoon. Lets just say the results looked great, but tasted inedible.