I'm 17. I'm a cooking show nerd. I watch so many cooking shows that it's really quite funny. I get basic ideas and techniques from observing cooking shows and reading cook books and magazines. My style of cooking is similar to Jamie Oliver's. I frantically throw together simple, but flavorful dishes in the spur of the moment and hardly ever use measurements. I do a lot of cooking at home for myself and for my family. I often create entire menus when i get carried away at dinner time. I almost become a head chef of sorts in the kitchen on special occasions like Christmases and birthdays. The main type of food that i enjoy cooking is Italian, closely followed by Asian and Nouvelle. I really like making pastas, ragouts, experimental salads, roasts, BBQs/grills, tapas and gourmet sandwiches. Both my parents have always exposed me to a vast array of food from countless cultures. They also frequently cook favorites from their respective cultures. The BBQ's my relatives put on for most occasions are a definite favourite. I also love my Filipino mother's chicken adobo, pork menudo and asian style cooking. My Hungrian father's stuffed cabbage rolls, pork belly and chicken soup (other than that he CAN'T cook very well and he's not very good at matching flavours). The first time i ever tried to cook unaccompanied when i was 9. I made a chicken and vegetable risotto. When my mum got home i was slaving away over the stove and she got really scared that I might've injured myself or burnt the house down...until she tasted what i'd made. She asked me to cook that dish over and over again for 2 weeks! One time I tried to make up a recipe for bread. The 'dough' never turned into bread. Whoops...