I have been married for 23 years. My husband's name is Jerry. I have 2 children, Tara is 22 and Christoper is 20. I enjoy cooking when I have time. Cooking is becoming a challenge for me as my husband and both my children have kidney disease. The "kidney diet" is low protein, low sodium, low potassium and low phorphorus. We love Mexican food. We have been to Mexico twice on mission trips and the food was wonderful. I love to experiment with recipes. Mine never tastes quite the same as the authenic mexican dishes. We have several holiday cooking traditions. We have ham on Easter, turkey on Thanksgiving and we love casseroles at Christmas. My favorite cooking tradition is Halloween, every year I make a huge pot of chili and my parents, sisters and their families and some of my husbands families all come to our house for chili either before or after trick or treating. My nieces love chili and I made it one year on Halloween and my then 7 year old niece decided it would be our new Halloween tradition. My aunt gave me a recipe for mashed potatoes using sour cream and cream cheese. It is now one of my most requested dishes. Everyone at work loves them and almost every pot luck dinner we have they are requested. I have had several over the years. One of the worst and most embarassing was the year I fixed my first Thanksgiving turkey. My in laws were over and I put the turkey in the oven upside down. It still tasted pretty good, however, I still get harrassed about it on occasion.