I'm married with a new baby so I don't have a lot of time to spend in the kitchen anymore! I am trying to build my cooking skills and find favorite recipes to add to my recipe box. By the time our children eat table food, I'd like them to be able to say that no one's cooking is as good as mom's! I'm a huge food snob. I try to find recipes that are easy, but are over the top delicious at the same time. I love to cook classic American favorites like apple pie, although my favorite dish is chicken saltimbocca. It's the first dish that is truly my own. It's my husband's favorite too, which is a great excuse to make it! My grandmother always made fruitcake at christmas. I think I might carry on that tradition, even though I may be the only one eating it! I found the perfect apple pie recipe. It's the one that Martha Stewart made on Oprah. I don't tell anyone that it's Marth's recipe though. Shhh! I tried to make bread for the first time last year and it came out hard as a rock. My mom commented that perhaps the yeast was too old. I replied "I was supposed to put yeast in it?" OOPS!