I'm a stay-at-home mom and aspiring novelist. I love to experiment in the kitchen, try out unexpected combinations and flavors. My incredibly supportive husband is a good sport when I take it too far. Chicken. Grilled, fried, baked, sauteed, boiled, you name it. I invented a really nice pseudo-asian dish with pineapple. Right now I'm working on beef and pork recipes to please the men in my life. My family always has a non-traditional meal for Christmas to offset the big turkey Thanksgiving (and the month's worth of turkey leftovers). One year we did barbecue, another year it was crab legs. The first time I made chocolate-chip cookies from scratch (instead of ready-made dough), I mis-read the recipe and put a tablespoon of salt in instead of a teaspoon. Despite the years of cooking success and batches of flawless cookies since, the family still won't let me live it down.