I'm a mother of five--three boys ages 24, 17 and 15 and two girls ages 19 and 14. I enjoy cooking big meals for my kids and their friends, and I'm having fun watching the kids learn to cook. I love to bake breads and pies, and my favorite recipe is one for dinner rolls that came from the kids' great-great grandmother. I also enjoy making Italian dishes such as lasagna. It has to be cookies with the kids, and baking pies using my mother's pie crust recipe. Watching my 14 year old daughter make pie crust on her own, and seeing it turn out perfect on her first try! (yeah, she's still bragging because my crust split in two that day!) The first time I made a big meal on my own, I made lasagna. It looked good, but I didn't let it sit after taking it out of the oven, and ended up serving "lasagna soup". Made it a second time a few months later, and forgot the cheese. I also made a cool whip pie in high school that had a crust that my boyfriend couln't cut with a knife. He had to stop eating it because he said he was afraid he'd break my mother's plate.