Cooking is one of my favorite hobbies. My family are fabulous sous chef's and we enjoy the time together cooking and eating. I'm always looking for new favorites and am creating a family cookbook to pass down. I think a recipe collection is one of the most valuable things you can give or receive in a family. Everyone picks what they want for their birthday dinner. It invariably makes for a hot day of cooking because everyone is born in the summer but it makes them happy so it's worth it. This year my daughter wants turkey dinner with all of the fixings and her birthday is in June. I can cook anything I try in a restaurant. I was trying to make a chicken and sausage rose sauce. It went badly from the beginning but I kept throwing ingredients in trying to save it. I even sent my husband to the store to get more stuff to put in it. He eventually had to stop me and order pizza.