I started cooking when i was 7 my mom worked alot and my aunt felt it was important that my brother and i learned to cook because my mother was not the cooking type i loved experimnting with recipes i can't help but to tweek every recipe that comes my way. now i am a mother and i enjoy teaching my children to cook my love for cooking has been carried over to my oldest daughter who is a junior in high school and is enrollrd in a culinary arts program she has plans to continue her education in the arts after high school we would like to open a resteraunt together one day. desserts are my passion i haven't found something with sugar i haven't liked yet though these days i look for sugar alturnitives my goal is tweek recipes to a diabetic format and the food be well good not after tastish i am italian at heart but i crave mexican so i mostly combine the two for some intersting dishes i am a chili cook off champion and i have past the tourch to my eldest child so my recipe still holds the title 5yrs running. when i was 12 i planned a wonderful meal for my mom's birthday with the help by telephone my aunt walked me thru all of the recipes i made fried chicken and baked her a cake from scatch frosting and alleverything would of turned out fine if my brother hadn't switched the lable on the flour and powdered sugar lets just say we went out to eat