I'm not going to lie-- I am no professional cook. Almost everything I cook somehow turns out either slightly wrong, burned or, barring that, leaving a hugenormous mess in my kitchen. But I like to cook, and I would like to become more proficient at it in 2010. Living alone I find it hard to get motivated to really cook for myself, but... lets see if I can turn that around. I like baking. I have stopped burning what I bake, for the most part. I also like making soup. It is sort of hard to really screw up soup. Ah, it wasn't MY cooking tragedy, but I would like to recall here the infamous macaroni slide of 2008.