As my kids were growing up,I never really had the chance to take the time to cook (lived in alot of arena's), besides very quick, boxed, already prepared meals. Now that they are basically on their own, i really do enjoy trying new things. I enjoy being in the kitchen and have declared it "My Room". My significant other is enjoying it too! He called himself the guinea pig for awhile but not so much anymore and has declared that the kitchen, "Is not his room"! Anything in the Crock Pot and Baking. Well.. it's not Family, but my significant other and I throw an annual Customer Appreciation Wknd every August. We usually enjoy about 50 guests and close friends for 2 days. I start to plan the menu's in Feb and tweek them abit in June, but it has become something that I really look forward to. The tradition is on the saturday night where a large pot of homemade Jambalaya from scratch comes out as part of the meal. It's just so much better than the usual Chilli for a large crowd. My first Customer Appreciation Weekend, menu's for 2 days, breakfast, lunch, dinner and a midnight snackie, where the guest list reached 58 for Saturday night dinner, and the Sunday night was 17 for a sit down at one table(2 lawntables pushed together)Steak & Potatoe dinner. 2 full days of menu's and nothing got burnt or oversalted! Thank you to all my girlfriends who helped me pull it off! We had 12 for a snowmobile meeting, where i had made a big pot of chilli and other fixins, but as we were spooning out the chilli, one of my guests advised me that the chilli was burnt to the bottom of the pot!