As I get older, I'm starting to really enjoy cooking for my family and friends. I seem to have good instincts with altering recipes and I love learning new tricks in the kitchen. When I got interested in genealogy, I also decided to build a cookbook of family recipes - especially after my Mom passed away. It has been a labor of love and I've got the rest of my family working on it now too. We're all using Mastercook 9 (not great, but the best software I've found). I plan to have it ready for my daughter's wedding - luckily that should be at least a few years off :-) And of course, you can tell by my name, that I LOVE Pyrex. I collect all patterns of vintage Pyrex and use it for cooking as well! It's nice to have a hobby that's functional too. My husband and I scour the flea markets and garage sales every weekend for new additions. We have several hundred pieces to date, and the final collection will probably be close to 1000 if we finish collecting every piece made in every p