I love to cook but not just for me. I love to have friends and family over for meals. So much fun to watch people eat and enjoy the food you have made. I love to look at the daily pictures and read the daily reviews from this site. Great to see what people are making and a great way to find good recipes. I print the ones that sound good and put them in my "Recipes to make" folder. Trouble is the folder gets bigger faster than I get the chance to make them. The picture is my adorable little tri-colored Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Roxie. She is 5 yrs. old but still just as cute. My son is all grown up so this is like my 2nd child. My only problem with her is trying to keep my TV screens clean of nose prints from her attacking any and all animals that appear on the screen. She has memorized sounds from commercials and comes running from wherever she may be for the ones she knows have animals in them. Craziest thing I have ever seen. BBQ'ing is my favorite, especially enjoy grilling seafood. Only trouble is, I live in Western Washington so the BBQ season is limited to about 4, maybe 5 months out of the year - I'm a fair weather bbq person, I do like it to be at least 65 degrees out. I really enjoy cooking most types of food and like to try to make recipes a bit more healthy when I can without compromising the flavor. Cooking for my family on holidays. Always Prime Rib on Christmas day and a buffet type help yourself meal on Christmas Eve and of course turkey on Thanksgiving. I'm not a good baker - I just don't enjoy it as much so I suppose that's why when I bake something that actually turns out well I consider it a triumph. Baking is just so precise. Take baking out of the equation and I consider myself an excellent cook with many triumphs. Most of my baking adventures I would consider to be clumsy attempts and while maybe not tragedies.......just never masterpieces. My family and friends are all wonderful and lie to me about the desirability of my baked items, but I know............