I have recently embraced cooking and enjoy making things that taste amazing! I am the one who brings the best dishes to pot lucks and I am very proud of this. My mother was always a very good cook and baker and alot of my recipes are of course from her that I now modify myself and recipes I get from others. I havnt made it to the level of cooking where I can substitite ingredients though...but I am sure I will get there. I love to eat things that taste great!! I like cooking anyhting that is delicuos! I love desserts and appetizers though, and anything made with berries!! Not many traditions, other than Christmas and Thanksgiving turkeys at my mothers Anything that turns out and my family enjoys. for soem reason, I can cook and bake most anything, but I am yet to make a half decent cookie. They always turn out like hocky pucks!!! I seem to lack the ablilty to be able to tell when the dough "feels right".