I'm a mother and a grandmother. I hadn't baked much since my (now grown) kids were young but, I'm getting back into it now that I have grandbabies who will eat the results. I never thought I'd be baking so many cakes & cookies again. It's really fun! Any kind of fish (I live close to the coast with very fresh fish available) and lots of soups since it's been FREEZING here. I cannot wait for summer when I can cook whatever looks good at the farmer's market. I love the baby squash & fresh corn. Every year on my daughter's birthday, she invites some friends over and I have to cook whatever menu she picked out, even if it's something I never tried before. She does give me a couple of weeks notice so I can do my research. Her request for creme brulee started me on a year long kick of trying all different creme brulee recipes until I made it as well, or better,than any restaurant. I also make an awesome key lime pie for my husband's birthday every year. When my son was in cub scouts, they had a "Christmas Around the World" pack meeting party with each troop making dishes from different countries and sharing them with the rest of the pack. Our troop got Korea, a country where few people celebrate Christmas. I make a salad using traditional Korean ingredients and utensils and, I ended up teaching almost 100 little boys to use chopsticks. I was making a "champagne chicken". When I poured the bottle of champagne into the pot, the flames shot up about 5 feet. I was so shocked, I stood and watched for a minute before I recovered and put the lid on the pan. It burned the bottom of the cabinet over the stove and that had to be removed but, it's been replaced with a range hood with fan & light that probably should have been there all along. I don't know how I cooked without that light.