Married with two boys, 13 and 19, one Cairn Terrier. I love my job as an undercover price auditor/sleuth. I collect cookbooks and read them as novels...so many recipes, so little time! Cooking is my life! I just love to cook, so I'm game for anything, and luckily my family loves to experiment, too. My recipe selections change as my family gets older. Lately, I'm into Mediterranean and anything Mexican. I used to be all about the dessert recipes, but seem to have lost my taste for rich and chocolatey.....I'm looking for quick, tasty dinners that we can all eat together. I've been on a quest to find THE perfect chicken cutlet, strawberry shortcake and macaroni and cheese recipes since I was a teenager, but the thrill is in the chase -- don't know what I'd do if I actually found them ;-) Shrimp Boils on Memorial Day, the Perfect Roast turkey (from this site) on Thanksgiving Day. I LOVE to cook a full-blown Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner during snowy Northeast blizzards! A four-tier tiramisu wedding cake for my girlfriend...I catered a buffet brunch for 60 and a dessert buffet for 75. I'm told I make a perfect pumpkin and apple pie. Ribs on the grill. My advice: Don't walk away from an uncovered high-flaming charcoal grill when you just put 30$ worth of baby-back pork ribs on there on a windy day. We ended up getting Boston Market that day. I have not attempted barbecued ribs since. UPDATE: Found the perfect rib recipe in Everyday Food Magazine last summer and successfully made more than a few slabs of barbecued ribs since!!!