I am originally from the west coast. I am married with no children, and a hungry dog who lurks under foot when I cook. I like to cook to relieve stress as I have been a full time student and study a lot at home. I enjoy cooking fish, and am always looking for restaurant quality recipes for seafood. I have been experimentng with fresh herbs and thai curries lately. Christmas Swedish Christmas anise seed sugar cookies with decorator frosting Fudge, traditional and marshmallow creamed Chocolate oatmeal drops Raspberry filled jam tarts Homemade donuts and spicy mulled cider on Halloween Easter bunny cookies with coconut marashino noses, and raisin eyes Canned fruits with whip cream-yes this is really good from my grandmother. Christmas eve cocktail buffets which I have taken on myself now. I do not have the perserverance to do the baking yet. See any of my reviews I tried to make a chocolate cream pie, and wound up using 2 cartons of eggs to get enough whites for the meringue. Lesson learned: go slow when separating. Also, Dont accidentally dump all the yolks into the whites.