I'm a gal with a guy and three dogs. I love cooking maybe more than eating! With my high level of self efficacy, I can do anything, cook anything...you name it. I live at high altitude (8250')in a super dry climate so I'll enjoy trying out the dessert recipes and posting back with any high alt changes. I know I'm not the only one up here! I love trying new things especially if they seem difficult or complicated. I also love simple and easy to make foods. Tops on my list: anything with rice, especially brown, basmati or sticky; soups; chili; pasta; risotto. I like changing recipes, mostly dessert recipes. Cutting the sugar content in half or changing from white flour to whole wheat is a favourite of mine. Canadian baked beans, a depression-era dish of my great grandfather's--we've all made this time and again. Dad's cooking which means either Mexican (or anything with beans, cheese, tomatoes, sour cream and shredded lettuce) or ground turkey with veggies, tomatoes and pasta. Mrs Cubison's stuffing, gramma style. Onions, lots of onions! I make pretty good pasta sauces from scratch sans recipes. Those fruit tarts were out of site. My first real chocolate mousse. My first high altitude bundt cakes...if the neighbor's dog hadn't eaten most of one. I love the book Pie in the Sky by Susan Purdy. It has really helped me to bake at high altitude with much more confidence and has helped me make things up here that I had been having trouble with. My first lemon cheesecake cookies tasted like raw dough...luckily, they were good when baked longer! The stuffed red peppers I made when I was 15. That was a tough year, I also made incredibly good caramel that I (for some strange reason) poured into styrofoam cups.