I am in medical school and have been cooking since young...it is my way to unwind! I am latino and I love to cook all types of food including those traditional latin recipes. My tastes definitely have changed the older I have gotten and the more I have learned...especially from my first Sweet Orange Chicken recipe at the age of 14!!! My motto is: Recipes are a guideline to discovering what you like best. So learn, practice, experiment, and don't be afraid to make a mess. Happy Cooking! hmmm...let's see. I love to bake. Some of my favorite items are my "ridiculously simple banana cake", cookies (i love cookies), brownies, and bread. I also love making Carribbean style spanish dishes like Pernil (pork shoulder), rice w/ habichuelas (PR style beans), Corn Beef Guisada (corn beef in stew-like sauce), and tostones. My favorite quick and easy meals are cheesy chicken, cheesy vegetable cassarole, thai chicken with dates, and quesidillas! Oh and how can I forget...I love to make Sushi!!!! When I was younger, we cooked very Puerto Rican/ Nicaraguense meals. From a little girl I would always follow my parents around as they cooked asking to help and asking what they were cooking. I can't remember when I first cooked, but I am pretty sure I started with bread and moved on up. My mom says I am like my dad in the sense I open up the pantry and fridge take out a various ingredients and start cooking whats there. My Thai Chicken and Dates...one day I became a date lover as far as cooking is concerned and wanted to have something to cook them with. Egg Nog French Toast...came about by pure accident, actually got the a french toast recipe from allrecipes.com and apparently didn't read it well at all. Needless to say it was an insipiration to a breakfast item that truly became my own. Maryland Hot Crab Dip- as anyone who knows a Marylander, we are obssessed with our crabs! And we long to know the treasured recipes so we can enjoy them in our own home. After researching many recipes and cooking them, I finally combined and adjusted who knows how many recipes and came out with a gem! And lastely my coconut-lime burger...quite lite and delicious. Oh there have been many...my mom always seemed to enjoy them, but as the cook who envisioned them you just don't seem to enjoy them. Recently I tried to do this cookie/muffin like creation with honey drizzled on it...it sounded good but not quite what I was going for...perhaps with some tweaking it can move to my triumph paragraph.