I'm a mom to two great children - daughter and son, both of whom are pretty good about eating and trying new foods! Our dinner times are family times, and the kids are involved in picking out recipes, planning weekly meals, grocery shopping, and cooking. My 14 year old is already a great cook for her age, and makes dishes such as red beans and rice and salmon! She even recently did a project on cooking and scrapbooked the recipes into a cookbook. I love to cook Asian foods, fish (mostly salmon), and pastas. I'm venturing into Mexican and Indian dishes. We're a very active and busy family, so recipes that are less complicated but use great ingredients, resulting in fabulous dishes, are what we search for! Thanksgiving and New Years Eve Dinners. These are great times for my family...my siblings and parents meet for a huge culinary fest that strays from tradition (anything from turkey to sushi) and brings forth new recipes to add to each of our own collections. Discovering this site and all the 5-star recipes! I had a difficult time learning to cook. Both of my parents are outstanding chefs - mom, being Asian, and dad very skilled in American cuisine. They wanted each of their kids to take a night of the week to cook. I could never read the recipes right, and would constantly make beef stew with the potatoes undercooked or chicken divan with whole bone-in breasts, forgetting to cube the meat! It's a miracle that I have gathered a small collection of tried and true recipes!