My favorite is baking- but I am not a big fan of sweets and I live alone so unfortunately I don't get to do it as often as I'd like because there is no one to eat it! Hopefully once I have a family... I come from a German-American family so most of our traditions revolve around traditional German food. Kuchen, knephla soup, strudle, dumplings etc. I remember helping my mother kneed the dough until it was just perfect and then spreading it across the kitchen table until it was paper thin. So time consuming, but so much fun. The smell of German sausage and onions will forever remind me of those days. I make an outstanding rhubarb crisp... one of the few things I have mastered better than my mother. And my enchiladas are to die for- courtesy of a lesson from one of my Mexican friends. My most recent cooking tragedy was banana bread of all things... the culprit was some outdated shortening.