I'm 18 going on 19. I joined this site mostly so when I come back from college this summer, I can have ideas on dinners, desserts, appetizers, etc. so my parents won't keep bugging me about how I don't cook anything. :O)
My favorite things to cook
I like making spaghetti and french toast. I'd rather find stuff that I can actually cook from scratch rather than read a box of pre-mixed foods.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Really don't have any other than Thanksgiving Potluck.
My cooking triumphs
The only one I can think of is making Korean Chicken and Vegetable with Teryaki Sauce with my mom. I wrote all the recipes down and it's sooooo good, but I lost the recipe. It's my mom's own creation.
My cooking tragedies
Reading a magazine with the recipe for a drop cookie with the Hershey Kiss in the middle. I forgot the sugar and it messed up the taste. It took me like 5 hours to make a nasty cookie...
Also, the Peanut Butter Cookies I made that came from a weird site. Too much butter and the cookies were so slippery that they fell off the tray as soon as I took them out of the oven at an angle.