Cooking is like a hobby that I truly enjoy, and allrecipes.com is my primary recipe source. I rarely make a recipe exactly as stated, due in part to all of the other members' helpful reviews of the recipe and suggestions of what they did differently. It's quite obvious (based on my recipe reviews and photo gallery on this site) that I prefer cooking to baking. I guess that's because cooking can be tweaked to personal preferences, baking is more of an exact science. I consider it a triumph when what I cook tastes good and looks good. If family and friends tell me they enjoy what I made, that's a triumph, too. Of course. Maybe not "tragedies" but plenty of "oops" moments that I try not to repeat!