I am a newly-wed and I have always loved to cook. It comes naturally in my family my mom and her sisters (all 9 of them) like to feed people and I guess they passed it on to me. There is nothing better than to see someone go back for seconds because they like the taste of it so much. I love to bake and decorate cakes. I have taught myself to decorate the cakes and I love to do the character cakes for the nieces and nephews for their birthdays. The look of awe on their face when I set a cake that looks like spongebob in front of them is just awesome. Christmas pies, cookies, awe heck desserts in general are the best. Elk Steak. I come from a family of hunters. I was in the third grade and my mother taught me to cook elk steak, mashed potatoes and gravy along with baking powder biscuits. This dinner is still a family tradition when we get together for special occasions. I made fifteen pies for thanksgiving one year. All of them within about two days. There was a pumpkin pie left and that just never happens, I just didn't think a whole lot about it until a few months later my mother and i were talking about it and she told me that i hadn't put sugar in the pie...oops. to many things going on at once i guess.