Currently I am a stay at home mom and a student, I have 3 kids 8, 4 and 3 months, and my hubby's a truck driver, I love to cook but i have limited space right now so my cooking has been limited to the quickest and easiest thing available and LOTS of microwave cooking, hopefully soon i will have a space with more counter space. My favorite things to cook are probably Mexican and chicken, and i am really starting to like my slow cooker better too! Well, since my mom's side of the family is swedish, i really like to cook swedish foods (especially the meatballs my grandmother makes!)I also love some of the greek dishes that were served at our greek festival back in Jamestown. I have conquered baklava and stuffed grape leaves, although they were VERY time consuming, but they were fun to make and at the party i took them to they were a hit. Also the dinner i made for my grandmother's birthday one year (and i was about 15 years old at the time)was french onion soup, chicken cordon bleu, and some other things i can't remember right now, but it was the biggest thing i had ever done on my own, aside from Thanksgiving dinner 5 years agi,,, I did it, turkey and all, without the help of family, it was my favorite thanksgiving because i had so many different things to serve. I haven't really had any cooking tragedies, unless you count the candy apples i couldn't get right no matter how hard i tried... candy is one of my difficult areas i would LOVE to conquer.