I'm a homeschooled senior in highschool. I'm the oldest of four kids (so my cooking has to pass very particular judges :D) I was helping Mom and Dad cook when I was three years old, and started cooking meals by myself when I was 9. Cooking is becoming a lost art these days, but it's one of my favorite things to do! I love baking bread! Every Christmas, my grandma has all of us grandkids come to her house (there are 13 of us) to spend the night and bake Christmas cookies. I made a totally from scratch apple pie for the first time and brought it to a church potluck. Everyone raved about it and said it was better than Mrs. Smiths'. :) Once when I was about 11 years old, I was going to cook grits for breakfast. If you've ever cooked grits, you know that you use very little grits to a lot of water. Well, when I reading the recipe, I got the proportions backwards! I had made four cups of slightly damp grits. Needless to say we were having grits for days. :)