I am a retired restaurant manager. I worked in the field for 15+ years. Now I'm bartending, my first love. Creating drinks and food are my favorite things to do. Anything Mediterranean. Southern food 'cause I was raised here. Baking bread and experimenting with new bread machine recipes. Boiled cookies during the holidays. Keeping my recipe for Chicken Francaise the same. My husband said I never cooked it the same way twice, so I had to write it down, exactly, so I can recreate it for him. I love to tweak my recipes. What can I say? This year I couldn't find my roasting pan so I roasted my turkey in a glass casserole.( I haven't roasted a turkey in years) When I put it the burner to make the gravy it EXPLODED!!. Thank God I had covered everything else on the stove top before hand.