Grew up an Air Force Brat, so I actually have been all over the United States and even spent a couple years in Japan I like to bake, and I'm constantly trying to make low fat versions of my favorite foods. Not too successful most of the time I might add Everyone worked in my household growing up, so I don't really have any family traditions. Dinner was whatever you could find. So now I try to make a point of cooking "home meals" and sitting at the table I made fudge this year as christmas presents(From recipes found here). EVERYONE raved about how good the fudge was. And since it was a first for me I tried out about 5 different recipes and brought the end product to work so it wouldn't be laying around the house, and I'm now considered a pretty good cook at work Tried to make an angel food cake, but since I didn't have a large size bundt pan I figured it would be okay. Needless to say it wasn't and I spent too days trying to get the cake out of my oven.