I love to read cookbooks and decide on a menu for the weekend before grocery shopping. I love to research the recipes by looking them up in my cookbooks and online at allrecipes.com to see if someone has an intersting twist on it. I love that! I also love to find unusual ingredients and experiment with them. Lately, I have been experimenting with almond flour/meal and flax meal. I make lovely lemon blueberry muffins with it. Yummy! I love to cook the following: ** Pizzas made from portobello mushrooms with fresh mozzarella and olives ** Steamed fresh green beans with nothing on them ** Green salad with simple dressing of oil and red wine vinegar ** Simple pan seared rib eye steak ** Spicy Kung Pao beef with celery and zucchini and peanuts