I am a happily married mother of two daughters ages 21 and 15. For many years I was a single mother working multiple jobs. My children were raised on frozen foods and mac and cheese. After meeting my husband and finding that he loved anything I would cook for him I began to experiment and found I actually loved to cook. Now cooking has become my favorite thing to do. I love to cook anything that includes fresh ingredients, especially when I have grown them myself. I do not have any family cooking traditions but I am attempting to create some. Becoming a good enough cook that my husband's co-workers fight over the leftovers he takes to work. When I was a child I used to love to mix things together in the kitchen and I created some pretty frightening foods. As an adult my tragedies usually involved poor timing of my dishes and having some over or under cooked.