My name is Tess, and I have been cooking for as long as I can remember. However, I didn't become the prestigious, professional chef that I am today until after retirement. I make great barbeque ribs, however, on occasion, I like to make smoothies for my great grandchildren. My family has a knack for cooking the best barbeques this side of the Mason-Dixon line. When I stumbled upon a new recipe for the most delicious honey-barbeque ribs and won a gold medal at a family barbeque reunion. I burnt my right hand during a cook-off in Washington D.C. I would have won, had this not happened!