I've been cooking since I was in elementary school. When I was young, I would randomly make things and make my younger sister try the food. I would love to go to Cordon Bleu in Paris someday. http://culinaryblackhole.blogspot.com/ Pasta, soups, various ethnic cuisines, attempting gourmet recipes, cookies, cakes, pies, bread I was famous for banana cake and meringues at age 12. Actually, I had various phases of obsessions back then, every Saturday baking scones, banana cake, meringues, apple turnovers, peach crumbles, etc. They were actually pretty good, and my family friends were definitely happy, too. When I was about 13, I found a book of microwave recipes. I tried making pavlova. It came out of the microwave like poached egg whites, flat and miserable-looking. It looked really disgusting! Of course, I didn't even think about eating it, but I imagine it tasted pretty awful too.