I am 20 years old, I have been married for 2 years and I have a 6 year old stepdaughter and a 7 month old daughter. My pets include two gerbils, a cat, and two beagles. My husband works 11 hours a day, so I began cooking for him when he would come home. When I was a child, I used to cook and bake constantly, everyone was always having to try my new foods. When I started cooking for my husband, I realized that the flair for cooking was still there! Now he has to beg me to keep me away from the grocery store, buying new and unique ingredients for new dishes I'm making. Every night I find another excuse to make something new, constantly searching www.allrecipes.com for exciting new recipes. I love to cook with vegetables because they give foods such color. If I cook food, it has to be PRETTY! I love sauteeing for stir frys and other dishes. Mexican has to be one of my favorite things to cook because my husband can't live without it. I enjoy pastas and meats and.. well.. I guess I enjoy cooking with everything!!! On Sunday evenings, my family and I go to my mother's house and my mother and I cook a meal for her family and my family. It gets to be a lot of fun cooking for such a large group!! I have never had anything I cooked turn out bad, except for one time (listed under tragedies) -- I have accomplished cooking the most outlandish of dishes, with the strangest combination of ingredients, even throwing in some of my own! And it always comes out yummy! I was probably 11 years old, I was baking homemade apple muffins if I remember correctly. I either was supposed to put in baking powder and put in baking soda, or visa versa, but it turned out terrible!! I was handing out the muffins to my family, and of course they ate them slowly.... Later I tasted one and found out how incredibly BITTER they were!! I was so embarassed and so apologetic. :)