I come from a family of 9 kids and learned to cook and bake from my Granny. Mid-West and Southern recipies in the beginning and now I experiment a lot with Hawaiian recipies and anything having to do with baking and hors d'oeuvres. I cook and bake many times a month for charitable organizations. Desserts - all kinds, casseroles, Asian, Filipino, using puff pastry, trying out new puu puu (hors d'oeuvre) recipes Big breakfasts with all of the trimmings. Christmas and Thanksgiving dishes including: oyster stuffing, Russian tea cakes, green bean & cheese casserole, Christmas cookies, ham with honey-mustard glaze, kalua pig, huli-huli chicken, sauces. I have mastered my pineapple-lilikoi-starfruit cake. We grow many fruits on our property so I am always trying new recipies with these. Using too much cheese or liquid in a recipe....I do most of my work from scratch.