I am a doting wife to my husband and a loving mother to my long-haired daschund. By day, i am a professional counselor. I love to cook just about anything. From simple to complex, I like to see what I can do. I grew up in a family that didn't like cooking. So, with few exceptions, most of our meals were from a box. At a young age, I began playing in the kitchen and found my love of cooking and my love of food. My first cheesecake....that didn't crack. And the one and only time I made fried chicken that was edible... i can not deep fry anything. Being from the south, that is equivalent to a crime. I had a grease fire trying to make french fries. When I made fried chicken I either had it raw on the inside or I burnt on the outside.