I'm a mother with 3 kids (still pregnant with the 3rd). I've been married for 4 years and have been cooking since I was around 10 years old. I love to cook comfort food. I don't do course meals, but I enjoy making a nice presentation. I really don't have any family cooking traditions. My parents, sad to say, cooked out of boxes and cans. Now that I am a mother, I try to cook mostly from scratch to keep my kids from eating additives and perservatives. In a way, I'm drastically changing my own eating habbits along the way. I have to say I don't have specific truimphs, but I love taking a recipe given and changing it to my own and passing it along. I think the thing I deslike about cooking a nice presentation is that you can spend hours perparing a delicious meal that can disappear (sometimes without gratitude) in just minutes.