Being a vegetarian, I didn't know how to cook anything except potatoes until I moved to Las Vegas with my boyfriend. He is a total meat eater, so I had to learn how to cook everything. I love expirementing and trying new things, tweaking recipes I find, and trying to create wonderful new tastes. My boyfriend's mother taught me how to cook the homemade noodles that have been in his family for decades. I love making them on every holiday. My first Thanksgiving dinner was this year! Turkey, noodles, stuffing, the works. I was so scared the turkey wasn't done, everything was going to be a disaster, but it wasn't! Suprisingly to everyone, the dinner was very good. Not bad for someone who has never eaten turkey. There have been soo many.....learning how to cook steak, chicken, and any meat for my boyfriend. I make it, then have him tell me how good it is, what I need to change, and I keep trying until I get it right....poor guy has eaten many many terrible dinners on my quest to make good food. There was the picnic I wanted to have, overlooking the lake. We used one of the grills that park had, and I made chicken on the grill, only it was very windy that day, and we couldn't keep the grill hot enough. The wind kept blowing off the tin foil, I lost a chicken breast on the ground, the chicken wouldn not get done. Finally, after fighting with the grill for an hour, I said it was done enough. The chicken was still pink in the middle, the corn on the cob was still hard and uncooked, and we couldn't even cut into the baked potato. Picnic over, we found the nearest Mc donalds.