I adore animals of all kinds, love the fine and performing arts, and am a long time musician. I only recently started cooking, but I've been baking since I was eleven. My favorite things to cook are things my pets can eat too! My cat and pet rats are all very spoiled. My mother has been making her famous white peanut butter fudge every Christmas since as long as I can remember, and three years ago, she passed the recipe on to me. Now we both make it, and the neighbors always ask for it. Baking is my forte, but I'm also good at soups and stir-fries, and I make a mean turkey gravy. But by far my forte is roasting poultry. Chicken is my victim of choice in the kitchen, and Thanksgiving is a family favorite. My worst habit is forgetting I have things in the oven baking and leaving the house. I came home one day and discovered the brownies I had put in the oven and forgotten had turned into a block with the consistency of a paving slab!