At home, my mom often had to cook for a lot of people - we were 7 in total and we often had my dad's business people come home for lunch or dinner. So, I grew up with lots of different and exotic foods and it came natural for me to be comfortable in the kitchen and try things out. Cakes, cookies and sweets (especially marshmallows) and I love to "play around" with vegetables and herbs - it's amazing what you can do with them... 1. Christmas cookies for eating ourselves and for giving away to family and friends 2. Birthday breakfast: each kid can choose what they want and become the chef and boss in the kitchen for one morning (no matter whether its a week-day or weekend!) A three-tier wedding cake for a friends wedding - I had never thought that I could do that!! A risotto that even my husband refused to eat - and he never refuses anything. I still don't know for sure what went wrong, but it was BAD.