Love to cook-sorta-but hate to grocery shop--I love to find recipes with ingredients that I have on hand! Dinner type dishes My favorite family tradition is going out for Chinese food on Christmas Eve--how strange is that? My whole life, this is what we've done and we are carrying the torch for my children to take over the tradition also :) When I made a real cheesecake I thought I had 'arrived' !!! Trying to cook for my family and sneak in things into the recipe and being found out later--with nobody eating the dish I had prepared!