Asian food especially Thai is my favorite to cook. Most dishes are easy to prepare, have very complex flavors that commonly blend sweet, hot and tangy tastes into the same dish. One pot or slow cooker soups, stews and chili cooked over 2-3 days especially during cold, blustery winter days. Whenever I think about home or family the bottomless pot of soup always comes to mind. Begining to create own recipes or at least deconstruct and reconstruct traditional recipes with a personal touch. Wish I had the time to go to culinary school...or at least had my own personal prep cook :-) The worst has to be the navy bean soup I made for about 12 firefighters at the station where I work. added hamhocks that had an overpowering smokey flavour then had a call and the soup burned on the bottom of the pan - an overzealous firefighter stirred the pot while i was gone and broke up the "char" on the bottom of the pan further increasing the burnt flavor and adding black chunks. It was known as "ashtray soup" and i am still reminded about it years later.