My husband was in the military and I learned how to "put" things together at a moment's notice (he would bring home a friend or office worker to have dinner with us.) Chinese dishes -- you can't go wrong! I was born in the Philippines; during Christmas season, we celebrate it with an early Mass starting from the 16th, and ends with a Midnight Mass on the 25th of December. We would attend the Mass; in the meantime, my mother would make rice cakes rolled in banana leaves. Then after the Mass, we would have our breakfast. Trying on new recipes! I was newly married and have not tried using gas stove. I baked a bread and it turned out like a "brick", literraly/physically! My husband wouldn't stopped "smiling"!