I'm 30yrs old and I live in northern suburbs of Chicago with my boyfriend of 3yrs. I love traveling, fine dining, movies, concerts, plays, martini bars, live music, shopping, and dancing. Dinner is my favorite meal to cook, followed by dessert! I love chicken, fish, and vegetable recipes that are somewhat simple, but very tasty. I recently started baking and have begun to really enjoy it! Growing up my family ate dinner together every night. My mom would cook and my siblings and I would always help out. I have tried to carry on that tradition with my boyfriend's kids, always asking them to help out and always making sure we eat dinner as a family! When my boyfriend and his kids enjoy something I have made and they go back for seconds or if it comes down to splitting the last remaining bites I know I have made something really awesome! When I was cooking mashed potatoes this last holiday season, and it happened to be the first time I was using my formal dinning room, the recipe, here on this site, was for 100 servings, I changed the amount of everything BUT the salt! I tried taking out the salt when I realized what had happened but it was too late, they came out so salty, they were awful! Luckily, everything else was amazing and my sister and her son as well as my boyfriend's kids were all very gracious about it!!!