I am 25 years old and I am married for 5 years with 2 dogs and expecting our first child. I am enjoying our first home and trying to learn my way around the kitchen so that we don't constantly eat out of frozen boxes. My favorite things to cook are recipes that I have found on this site. Right now I really love the recipe Aussie Chicken and I also really like the Recipe Beef Parmesan Pasta. These are made on a regular basis. My favorite family cooking traditions are holiday meals ex: My moms chicken casserole with her famous rolls and Applesauce raisin bread for Christmas or her Shrimp Maccaroni salad for all special occasions. I can't wait to start my own family's cooking traditions. Although I think it will be quite sometime before I am brave enough to tackle holiday meals. Right now I am in charge of bringing the Stove Top Stuffing- thats how much faith my family sees in me :) hmmm... haven't had too many of those yet. My triumphs are making a recipe that my family loves that I know I will make for years to come. My cooking tragedies would be taking things out of the oven. I have burned myself so many times and have had many incidents where I drop the food back in the oven. For example a homeade pizza went face down on the burners. I was so upset my husband cleaned the whole thing up for me but it made a huge mess!