I am a mother of three, my husband is in the US Coast Guard. We move around a lot. I started cooking when I married my husband, I guess you can say I forced myself to. I wanted my family to eat homecook meals like how my parents raised me on. With allrecipes.com, it has been such a wonderful experience for me to try new recipes here that are incredibly good! In my spare time, I enjoy playing with my kids, reading historical fiction and KJV bible, outdoor activities and trying new recipes. I love to cook southern food, asian, mexican, italian and desserts. My mom would always cook for us (we hardly eat out), she passed this tradition on to me and now I'm passing it on to my daughter. I grew up eating fish and lots of vegetables. Since my husband is all-american and I'm cambodian. We switch back and forth on our culture and sometime merge the two! I've learned to make better italian dishes just because of allrecipes! Baking cookies that came out so hard that it nearly broke my grandpa fragile tooth.