I am a college student, writer, musician, and proponent of gay and women's rights. I am journalism and psychology. I publish some of my work at http://charrlie.deviantart.com/ I love cooking Tex-Mex, Mediterranean, deli, and pub foods! I think homemade pizza and gourmet sandwiches probably top my list. My family is Tex-Mex to the max. My dad makes buttermilk corn bread, Hoppin' John for New Years. My mother makes Chicken Parmesan, and egg and potato burritos. They worked together-while my two siblings and I were little-to make taco meat, homemade salsa, and other accoutrements of Mexican night. We also have some awesome Passover dinner traditions. My best yet-Butternut Squash Lasagna. Some of my biggest triumphs have been my original creations and interpretations. I mix my own sub sauce for my Superhero Submarine, subs on French bread, layered with Provolone, cheddar, turkey, roast beef, black olives, and sweet, plum tomatoes. My Chicken Passata (http://allrecipes.com/personalrecipe/62168100/chicken-passata/detail.aspx) is a popular family dinner. I think the two biggest mistakes I ever made in the kitchen were lemon-garlic pasta and fried okra. My lemon pasta was a briny, oily, inedible mess. I sometimes have cupcake recipes go horribly awry.