I'm a self-taught cook. I used to cook with my father when I was a child and learned some of the basics from him. I've always enjoyed baking, have gotten pretty good at it so I'm told, and I plan on going to culinary school to become a pastry chef. I'm a big dessert fan, so anything sweet. I can be pretty picky sometimes but I believe anything can taste good to anyone if it's cooked or prepared a certain way. Everyone's tastes are different. My father's family is Asian so I love asian food, more the authentic stir-fries and meat dishes than the canadian-chinese dishes. My family has a pretty busy schedule, with my siblings and I between the ages of 20-25 we all have different schedules. Our only "family dinners" are major holidays or pure coincidence. So we love making roasts and pasta dinners when everyone is home or for Christmas and Thanksgiving I make dinner and a dessert while everyone else cleans up and sets the table. I like the memories people have of food, so I make Coconut cream pie for my mother because it reminds her of her childhood and eating it with her father (who passed away before I was born). Or chicken soup that reminds friends of what their grandmother used to make. I make a mean chocolate brownie, haha, and I've been using the same chocolate chip cookie recpie for 12 years. I make them to take to work and they're gone in a matter of minutes. I also make a mean lasagna and mannicotti. My first time making brownies from scratch resulted in what I call brownie fondue. The pan was too small and deep, so the sides cooked before the inside did. Have to say as a brownie recipe it was a disaster... but it was a delicious make-shift chocolate "fondue".