I love to cook, I am an avid slow cooker. I use it more than my oven for cooking dinner. I love to feed my family and I take a lot of pride in it. I love making soups that slow cook all day and baking with my son. I also like learning and cooking European, Eastern European style. I have found many good recipes on here. I pretty much taught myself to cook. I remember making beef and noodles when I was 18 and I didn't know I had to cook the beef a long time and I only cooked it until it was brown and boy was that some tough stew meat!