A stay-at-home mom with 2 kids under 2. I love to try new recipes. I like recipes that have beautiful presentation as well. My mom taught me how to make pies by 2nd grade. Our family's pie recipes have won ribbons at fairs in PA and NJ. I used to visit my grandma's in the summer and she taught me how to cook her Pennsylvania Dutch style specialties. My decorated cakes are my triumphs, I feel. My husband would rather eat something delicious rather than look at it though. I was making a pie for the county fair. It was my first roll out crust. It was dry and braking apart. It looked terrible. I was crying. I made some slits in the top to make them look like vents and sprinked coarse sugar on top and won 1st place. I guess it turned into a good thing, but I was devastated at the time. I wasn't even going to turn it in.