Baking is my therapy! Cheesecakes, desserts, brunch. My favorites are squash dressing, lemon cheesecake, coconut cake, red velvet cake, crab tartlettes, quiche. My family always has way too much food when we get together. We all love to cook and enjoy good Southern food. Making my first cheesecake from scratch for my Mother's birthday 10 years ago. After that I knew I could try anything. Gave me a lot of confidence in my abilities. I am good at taking a recipe and tweaking it to my likes. Most of the time I don't use recipes except for baking. I just can't make good soup. I have spent so much money on shrimp and seafood trying to make good soup. One of my tragedies saved my house - had a big pot soaking that I had tried shrimp bisque and our bathroom caught on fire and my husband put it out with our big pot of soaking shrimp bisque water.