I am a wife and mother of 2 adult grown girls. I love to cook but make the biggest mess doing so. I have been an insurance agent for the last 8 years, hoping to wind down some so that I can cook some more Desserts, side dishes, appetizers We tend to have the same meals for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year by demand. I try to incorporate diffferent side dishes for a little change. I finally have all the gadgets that make cooking easier. Up until this last year I preferred to cut everything up by hand with a dull knife. I got the Professional Kitchenaid, a food processor and some awesome knives. Cooking now takes me 1/2 the time. Too many to count. Before I used the computer as my cookbook, I would leave items out all the time. I think that my worse tragedy though was when I was dating my husband, I decided to make him a meal, we had beef stroganoff, homemade rolls, salad and a cheesecake that had 8 packages of cream cheese. Needless to say, he was very gracious but full. He still teases me about the "heavy" meal to this day.