I have been married since 1995 I have two children. I love everything about food from growing it, to cooking it, to reading about it to shopping for it and especially eating it. My focus is now on eating healthy. I like to cook Sunday dinner with all the trimmings. I also like to try new foods. I enjoy cooking with my daughter. We love to bake cookies, cakes and pies. We usually end up giving away more than we eat because we would eat everything in a few days. We do a lot of baking during the holidays and everyone looks forward to our cookies, sweet potato pie and coconut cake. My daughter requested a checker board cake for her birthday. I was a little nervous because each time I attempt to make the batters run together and the presentation is ruined. The cake I baked for her birthday was perfect. Friends couldn't believe I baked it myself. I live in Maryland and a summer is not official until we have feasted on crabs. We usually drive across the Bay bridge and get a bushel of crabs at least once each summer. Once I got the bright idea to steam my own. Bad idea. A crab jumped out of the pot and crawled all over the kitchen.