Hi! My name is Alyssa and I'm a Junior Marketing major at Murray State Universiy! I love, love, love to cook. I've been cooking seriously for about three years, but I grew up in the kitchen with my parents and grandma. I'm going to Italy to study for a semester just because I love to cook and eat Italian food! I love to cook pasta dishes with lots of basil, garlic, and onion! I also have tried my hand at Cajun cuisine, as well as Asian and Mexican. I can make some killer chicken and shrimp enchiladas and awesome salsa! Of course I can deny my love for soups too! I love Thanksgiving because my mom makes AMAZING Toll House pie! I also think it's so funny that even though older relatives have passed on, and older siblings have moved away, we still make enough food to feed 20 people even though it's just Mom, Dad, and ME! We are such foodies. I have to say my most proud moments have to be either when I made some excellent sushi on my first try, or maybe when I made shrimp and crawfish etouffe. Or how about the fact that I live in a teeny tiny apartment with a teeny tiny kitchen! That's a cooking triumph in itself! Oh there have been many... I've only made a couple of things that were truly truly inedible. One would be some weird chinese noodles that I tried to make that ended up like a big ball of gelatinous goo. Another would be some white bean soup that looked SO GOOD, but I think I burnt my roux because it tasted like death. With every tragedy though, there is a lesson!