I just moved to Seattle from Minnesota and am loving getting to know my new city and patronizing the Pike Place Market. I enjoy cooking, baking, reading, writing, spending time with friends and family, exercising, skiing, and being outside. Beef stroganoff is a staple in my home, I love to experiment with pastas and casseroles, I make a lot of biscuits and my favorite is definitely baking. When I was a toddler I would sit up on the counter with my dad and cook breakfast everyday. He'd even let me crack the eggs. I attribute my love of cooking to my fond memories of cooking with my dad. Now that I'm grown, we still love to be in the kitchen together. He makes the best pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. Most recently, I made my first ultra successful Thanksgiving meal, with the help of you all at allrecipes.com. My food was so delicious and I was very proud of myself. I'm becoming more comfortable in the kitchen and trying to experiment more often to create new meals. Oh there was only one real tragedy. I tried making ravioli from scratch. After spending the better half of the day making ravioli dough and filling I was very disappointed when it turned out tasting like paste. It was disgusting. Then, to top it off, I set the bread on fire under the broiler. I have never had a worse day in the kitchen. I think I went without dinner that night because I was so upset.