I love trying out new recipes, especially regional cuisine with which I'm unfamiliar. I often adapt recipes to suit my vegan lifestyle, which is sometimes a challenge, but I embrace it and am usually happy with the results. I try to live a healthy lifestyle, so I enjoy cooking and being able to control what goes into my body. Sharing my culinary creations with friends and loved ones is probably what I enjoy most about cooking (I just hope they like it!). Vegan food, Asian (esp. Indian and Thai), presumably healthier versions of old favorites, anything spicy Thanksgiving: Mom bakes delicious rolls--the only thing that comes close to running out at dinner, even with the vast spread we always have laid out. Christmas season: We bake loads, especially roll-out sugar cookies and Mom's mini pecan tarts. Any holiday: We all help in the wrapping, frying, and eating of massive quantities of lumpia. It's impossible to make more than a few dozen in one sitting. But I need to work on a good vegan alternative.