I grew up in a cooking household and started learning to cook at the age of 7. Today I'm a Mom with two kids (ages 15 and 11) who love to cook too! We like to camp so we're always on the lookout for recipes that can be prepared outdoors with only a few ingredients. Baking - because it's not something I do every day - cookies, cakes, cobblers, muffins, and my husband's favorite apricot scones. Making Christmas cookies... also hosting big family holiday dinners. Another fun tradition is New Years' Eve when we make a meal on all appetizers - my kids' favorite dinner because anything goes! A few years ago I made beef tenderloin for 20 people. The roast cost $80 at the local farmers market and I was terrified of ruining it! It took longer to cook than expected, and dinner was late, but it tasted great and I found it's pretty difficult to wreck such a wonderful cut of beef. Mistakes happen when I rush. Once while making my favorite chocolate cake I forgot to add sugar! It didn't rise, started to turn black, and we won't even talk about how it tasted.