I'm an avid Husker football fan who loves to cook. I tend to view most (but not all) recipes as general guides & like to take recipes & make them my own by varying the ingredients. Sometimes this works, sometimes I end up dumping the food onto the compost heap!! Anything that my husband & toddler ask for seconds on!! :D My mother loves to cook & she was the one who taught me how to cook & I'm teaching my children how to cook. It's ok to know HOW to get the food, but it it ain't fit to eat, well then, ya got yerself a leeetle problem! LOL! Made microwaved bread once & only once as a teenager. Mixed it up somewhat like regular bread, but "baked" it in my mother's microwave. Can't remember the ingredients or times, etc. to this day! Was a newlywed ... 1st EVER Thanksgiving meal that I cooked totally on my own ... turkey blackly burnt on the outside, bloodily red raw on the inside. Followed mom's "advice" & cooked turkey at 450º for 1 hr. Found out mom was joking. :-} Thanks mom! :P