I am of Chinese-Cambodian decent and was born in Pailin, Cambodia in 1973. I came to the U.S. when I was 3. I spent my youth in Rockport, TX and my teen years in Minnetonka, MN. I have been living in New York since February of '99. I ended up here because my husband and I decided to accept a job offer he got as a coffee trader. It's been fun and going into the city to dine in fabulous restaurants is a real treat that I don't get to do often enough. I am in love with food. Not just any food, but good food. My taste buds are very adventurous and I'd try just about anything once. Wait...I take that back. Except for the type of cuisine you'd find on Survivor. Unless I'm there competing to win a million bucks I'd eat it, otherwise...no thanks!;D I have been married since October of '97 and I have two children. A son and a daugher. They both love to help me cook in the kitchen. I will cook any recipe that I find "mouth watering" appealing to me. I have probably over 200 recipes that I've printed, used and kept from Allrecipes.com. Usually, though, some sort of meat is involved. I love my meat! To name a few(all from Allrecipes)...Sombrero Fajitas, Country Fried Steak and Milk Gravy, Shrimp Brochette, Nime Chow (Raw Spring Rolls), Marinated Pork Roast with Currant Sauce, Maria's Stuffed Chicken Breasts, Chicken and Shrimp Jambalaya...I could go on, but I'll stop there. We have several small patches of wild raspberries growing on our property. Every year we spend about 2 weeks picking and collecting enough berries for me to make a raspberry pie from scratch. I found a great recipe for pie crust and filling on this site and the whole thing turns out sooo yummy! Basically, I consider the fact that I always make recipes my own by tweaking it my way a triumph. It's rare that I'll follow a recipe exactly, but always when I'm baking, though. My thing is is that I taste as I go and add or omit what I think would improve the flavor. Ok...don't laugh, but anything involving the broiler usually turns into a tragedy. I think to myself that I'm just going to brown or melt something real quick, but being the multi-tasker that I am I end up working on something else. This in turn results in me forgetting about the food and it ends up burning. Needless to say, my husband is usually the one in charge of all the broiling done in our house.