I LOVE to cook, and my fiance LOVES my cooking, so we're a match made in heaven! I recently moved down to Louisiana and have begun the process of perfecting a southern roux - and I've learned that this is not something to be taken lightly! I would say that I love to prepare Thai dishes. There's not really any options down here when it comes to Thai food, so I've learned to fend for myself. My fiance gave me a wonderful Thai cookbook for Christmas this year and we've had a lot of fun learning new techniques and making some great food! My favorite cooking tradition is when my mother and I will make Yorkshire pudding - it's always fun to see just how high it will rise and if it does, whether or not it will stay that way! When we found out that we were moving to Louisiana from Chicago I decided to try my hand at some Cajun foods. Well, after a lot of trial and error I came up with a recipe for Jambalaya that my entire family just went nuts over, but none of them are actually from Louisiana so I was a bit nervous as to what an actual Cajun might think of it. One night I made it for dinner and my fiance decided that he was going to take some to work the next day and ask his boss - a true Cajun from Bayou Country - to give it a shot and offer up some constructive criticism. His exact words were "Good girl! You didn't put chicken in it - that's the mistake all you Yankees make!" He then proceeded to tell me that it was the best Jambalaya he'd ever had, and that unless I wanted him eaten by a gator I'd best keep my mouth shut around his wife! I've actually burned water. Believe me, it CAN be done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!