I have always loved cooking and credit my mother for motivating me by making some form of hot dogs every night! I am back at work full time and have two boys ages 7 and 8, as well as a 20 year old neice who is attending college at University of Texas Pan American. I love to cook and enjoy finding new recipes for my family to fawn over. I have a big sweet tooth and adore cookies, cakes and brownies. For main courses, I try to stay healthy by making chicken or vegetarian dishes. I live in a predominately hispanic culture, so we seem to eat more mexican food and I try to make these dishes in a healthy way. My grandmother was an excellent cook and I have many of her recipes for pie, cakes, and chicken and dumplings. Just being able to make something my entire family of extremely picky eaters will consume! I can't count the times where my cakes have sunk right in the middle!