I just finished my second semester at The Culinary Institute of America. I am working at Bobolink Dairy for my externship in Vernon, NJ. When I graduate from the CIA (Heh heh) I plan on doing some sort of work where my cooking will really help people in their day-to-day life. Hopefully some of you will benefit from the nourishment my food provides someday! I love making soup, fish, macaroni and cheese (from scratch, of course) and just playing around with food until I make a tasty combination. It's especially fun cooking right now because it really is benefiting others! Making really great things for me and my friends to eat so that we actually enjoy it and getting to cook for my family and friends whenever I can. Every time I make something successfully, it's a huge triumph. As I said before, I love playing around with different ingredients until I make a tasty combination. Whenever something works out well I feel very successful. Now that I make cheese whenever it turns out well I do a little dance. I am looking forward to getting to make lots more! Putting too much salt into chocolate sauce when I was about eight and when I dropped half a cheesecake on our kitchen floor after spending an hour and a half decorating the stupid thing with fresh fruit and chocolate. ARGH!!!! ;)