I am 40 years old, happily married and living in Scarborough, Ontario. We have recently purchased our retirement home. Although it will be many years until we retire, we go there every weekend and for vacations. This is where I do most of my cooking for the week. I love to cook different things on the weekends, when I have time and we are in the country. I love Mexican and Thai foods. Anything with lots of flavour. The holidays are always a good time for cooking. We have the usual, turkey and ham and then we each bring a dish to my parent's house, so there is an ecclectic selection of foods. Anything that is really easy to make but looks like it took a long time, like the Mexican Shredded pork from this site. It's delicious and the slow cooker does most of the work. I tried to make cupcakes to take to my husband's family get together. My oven's bake element was way too hot, so they burned. That's when I learned, and got an oven thermometer.