I'm married to a great guy and we have 2 children. My favorite things to cook are main and side dishes, appetizers and desserts too! My husband loves to grill (he's quite the grill master!) and I enjoy making all the sides to go with it. My favorite family cooking traditions were with my mom as a child, which included helping her in the kitchen make cookies, cream puffs, her famous potato salad and Christmas Taco bake. I make a mean blue-cheese stuffed grilled filet mignon! I was out of town on business and decided to leave that morning with a meal in the slow cooker to suprise my family when they came home. I made a simple sloppy joe recipe, but had turned up the cooker to HIGH, instead of low. It came out as black, burnt crusty sloppy joes, but they still ate it. (I wouldn't have gone near it!)