Work-at-home mom, painter, total foodie. Cookies, soups, one-pot meals, and anything grilled! Family tradition for the last 20 yrs or so: skip the greens, jowl, and blackeyed peas, must have Mexican on New Year's Day! The day I realized the importance of ratios in baking. After that, it became a lot easier to adjust recipes to get the textures I wanted. Let's see... As a kid the first several times I tried to make devil's food cake I didn't know what "fold" meant. Tasted good but was a little, uh, dense. And there was that one time I accidentally set the kitchen on fire...