I have been married to my incredible husband for over 9 years. I am a stay at home mom of three wonderful children who are ages 5, 3, and 6 months. I have lived in the South my entire life and love it here! Southern cooking is in my blood. If it is Southern, I can cook it! I love to cook almost anything! To try to simplify things, I have different genres for different days of the week: Mexican Night, Italian Night, Pot Pie/Quiche Night, Breakfast for Dinner Night, etc. This saves me time and it helps to save us money at the grocery store. I can look on allrecipes.com for ideas for the upcoming week and buy accordingly. Each Sunday after church, my family would go over to my grandparent's house: "Granny & Pa Paw's" to eat lunch. As we opened the door, the best smells would poor out of their home! Roast beef, home-made whipped potatoes with gravy, fresh black-eyed peas, turnip greens with pepper sauce, fried okra, silver queen corn on the cob and corn bread (never ever made with sugar!) was my favorite meal. Granny is still alive (78 years old) and still cooking delicious home-cooked meals! I hope to be like her one day with my grandchildren and great-grandchildren! Getting one of my recipes published on this site. I hope to have more published in the near future! When I was in high school, my best friend and I were going to make home-made fried chicken for our boyfriends. We had never really cooked that much before, but we were sure we could do it. We followed the recipe to a “T” except we made one BIG mistake. We accidentally substituted condensed milk for evaporated milk. We fried them up and they looked BEAUTIFUL! They were browned to perfection and so crispy-looking. We brought them on our picnic and placed them on our boyfriend's plates. They both took big bites as we looked on with pride. Their faces turned from happiness to disgust as soon as the meat entered their mouths. The outside was nauseating candied chicken skin and the meat inside was still raw! Yuck!!! We had to leave our sweet little picnic and drive to KFC. How embarrassing!