I never learned to cook as a girl. When I had a family of my own I had to learn quickly. As my family has grown my interest in cooking has too. I started watching cooking shows on TV then discovered this and a few other sites. This is my favourite though. I love experimenting with new tastes and have somehow discovered that I seem to have a knack for looking at recipies and being able to tell if they would turn out to be delicious. Main courses. Good steaks, roast beef, turkey. A vegetarian I am not. I also love to make sauces and salad dressings. When I see a recipe for a sauce,dressing, marinade that calls for lots of ingredients or ingredients that I usually don't use I get intrigued. Due to quite a few really good recipe results, mainly from this site, I have been enjoying baking. Thanksgiving and Christmas Turkey dinner. The menu is almost always the same and the kids wouldn't have it any other way. Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, a veg, my special gravy, cranberry sauce, cabbage salad, manderine orange salad and nanaimo bars for dessert. I am always on cloud nine when I make a roast and the gravy turns out really good. But I think that finally mastering a pie crust makes me feel triumphant. Friends were invited over for a casual dinner. I was using my old standby spagetti sauce recipe that I have made for 10+ years and I burned it. My friends are great and we had a good laugh. A few months later the same group gathered at my house for a meal. Everything looked great. A nicely balanced Sunday spread. Nothing too fancy, just a homey meal. I carved the roast beef in the kitchen and began to load up a generous platter. My jaw dropped when I saw how rare the meat was. Now personally I enjoy beef rare but I wasn't sure everyone would share my taste. There wasn't too much I could do considering everyone was seated and very hungry. Thank goodness for the dimmer switch.