I'm 21 and I just moved out to New Jersey to train with the National Team for Rowing. My parents own a Cafe in San Francisco where they make pretty much everything on premise so I grew up surrounded by food and recipes. My mom created most of the things we sell, from all the burrito fixings to soups to muffins. I love working with new ingredients becuase I want to be able to cook anything, just like my mom can. Pizza, because I've been making the dough since i was tall enough to reach the counter, and so now, if I haven't succeeded at a new recipe in awhile, i can always go back to pizza becuase I know i can do it well! Making anything for the restaurant with my mom becuase even if we are just doing a sample recipe my mom has no idea how not to bake in bulk. I grew up thinking 25lbs of flour was the "small" bag. 1)Making Pretzels and bagels my sophomore year 2)Making Chicken Noodle soup from complete scratch! I cooked a whole chicken, DE-BONED it! All by myself (I hadn't ever really worked with whole pieces of meat before)and used the broth for the soup with all the normal ingredients. 3) Caramel Corn! Making stew with my bestfriend/brother's girlfriend my freshman year. It reminded me of the stew Bridget makes in Bridget Jone's Diary, atleast it wasn't blue... but it wasn't good... Making strawberry pie with a roommate last year... it looked more like stew... haha