Mother of 2 daughters (1st and 3rd grade). I have been transformed by the AllRecipes.com and the Food Channel from someone who cooked things in packets to someone making wonderful meals for my family. I have two that will live in infamy. One of the first soups i ever tried to make was a cold cucumber soup. I worked on it for a long time. I took one bite, got up and poured it down the drain. The 2nd tragedy was the first time I tried meatloaf. It was so bad that the stray cat in our neighborhood wouldn't even eat it.