I was born in the South, transplanted in North (michigan)and returned to the South! I enjoy cooking for get-togethers/dinners. I luv to travel -lived in 5 diffrent states. I adore animals. I have a dachshund and cat. I like to paint,enjoy all kinds of art. Enjoy outdoors.Luv the Smoky Mnts, Maine,Michigan,Gulf Shore/Fort Morgan, New Orleans, northern Cal, I did say that I luv to travel! I also have a wonderful husband and family that I luv to spend time with. Sometimes just relaxing & watching a movie with them is fun too.I like to garden - flowers & vegi. Like things neat/in place but not a super neat freak,can be ok about some messiness. I like meeting people,can be a people person but like solitude also. I like all kinds of music; I guess that is about it, isn't that enough?!LOL! OH, luv to be around people with a nice sence of humor,enjoy a nice laugh. I like being a postive and not a negative!!! Almost Everything! Being exposed (in MI) to a lot of ethnic foods, I enjoy a wide variety of it. I also enjoy cooking good southern food, -brnsugar/pineapple glazed ham, butter peas, mashed potatoes, fried corn, corn bread - yummmy! I cook Itailin also. I lived down the st. from a sweet Itln woman who taught me to cook it.My sis-in-law's Aunt taught me to cook some Spainish dishes. One is a chicken/tomato/olive dish that is served over slices of a baked polenta. Wow, it is fantastic! Greek gyros, Chinese stir- fry, pork stmed dumplings, fried rice! Mexican food, Are you hungry yet, I am! So you get the Ideal, I cook a wide variety. Friends ask about parties/cookout I get many requests for them.I am blessed w/cooking. Of course the holiday cooking with all the trimings.They luv the once a year "smoke off" where I spend a week smoking chickens, beef briskets, pork, turkey breast and then seal them up & freez for other meals. I also have a "smoke off" party for family/friends. I smoke some meat - they bring cvrd dishes for a night of music/eating. the family/friends soup/sandwich nigh, I make 3 pots of soup, I provide all fixings for sandwiches - each person brings a pound of sandwich meat.There's chili night- I make a white/chic chili & red meat chili.Make your own pizza night, low-country boil picnic, build a brats night, etc. My husbands most favorite dish I cook is Yankee Potroast.My hubby says that he's never ate a yankee pot roast better than mine. My son's has two favorites- my Swiss steak/chicken fingers. Friends tell me that my cookouts and "smoke offs" are the best. One travels to Texas, he tells of a place that is famous for smoked beef brisket. He says mine is better! Another friend has me cook my ribs for her a couple times a year. (that recipe/BBQ sauce I do not share)My mom says that everything that I cook is great, bless her. She was a grt teacher as was her mother(my granny) and so was my mother-in-law, who shared her family recipes with me. I changed/adjusted my cooking/recipes to my family needs/tastes. It started from three great cooks that I have to give credit to because I would not be as good as I am if not for these three gracious ladies. Bread! I just cannot cook a loaf of bread - not even French bread! I cook biscuits, a mean cornbread, johnny-cake, rolls, crackers -- BUT not bread!! I bake all kinds of stuff, not bread!!! So I buy all my breads from a nice little bake shop.