I love foods with bold, exotic flavors. I like experimenting with colorful veggies, whole grains and wild fish! I also love to bake cakes, cookies and muffins to share with my friends and family. Every year on Labor Day my parents host a huge party complete with several barbequed turkeys. My sisters, grandmothers and parents and I prepare the birds and stuff them with sage, celery, garlic etc. I love prepping the birds with them! Perfecting my Uncle's Peanut Butter cake and Judy's Petite 10 Layer Chocolate cake. My favorite flavorful dish to cook is Tempeh Ratatouille. Once I tried to make traditional hungarian goulash and had the heat up too high... I used smoked paprika and kept admiring the "smoky aroma" emitting from the stove. Little did I know that the aroma was the goulash actually burning and fusing to the bottom of the pan! Happily, I was able to salvage some of the goop and create a different kind of stew.