I'm a 24 year old, stay-at-home mom to a wonderful three year old girl & one on the way. My husband works from home which is a wonderful experience having him so available for our daughter throughout the day. I absolutely love to cook, and thoroughly enjoy looking up new recipes. My daughter is a picky eater sometimes, so when I find a recipe she likes I make enough to be bought at Costco lol. I love to bake. Cookies, cakes, bread; it doesn't matter. If it goes in the oven, I'm all over it. We haven't started any reall cooking traditions in my married family yet, but the best memory I have as a child was getting to lick the bowl after my mom put the cake mix in the pan to bake. My sister and I would take turns spooning out what was left in the mixing bowl. Even my mom would join us, making it that much more special. I made salmon patties from scratch for the first time last night actually... They turned out great. I left out the vinegar, mainly because I don't care much for it. And my husband said he liked them better than his mom's (and it was her recipe lol). The first time I cooked with garlic was a disaster. Please, when cooking with garlic, know the difference between a clove and a head. I knew no such difference and instead of using 2 cloves of garlic in the recipe, I used 2 HEADS of garlic! The recipe tasted fine, but the house smelled of garlic for a month. Not a plesant thing to smell after the first few days.