Hey I am Bridget, and I am only 13 years old, but I still love gourmet food and gourmet cooking. I also like casual and packaged stuff, as long as it tastes good right? It doesn't have to be fancy and rare. Mushroom rice, cookie dough, portobello mushrooms, whole-wheat pasta with homemade tomato-mushroom sauce, Ramen- its so good! I haven't been allowed to cook for any holidays yet... No one trusts me. :) Mother's Day meal- Coconut-orange salmon, almond green beans, and homemade tiramisu. Yum. Portobello mushrooms has become a favorite family dish, made several times a week. I was warming up skim milk for a shortbread/apple desert I was making and I turned around for one second, just one second. When I turned back the milk had flooded the stove and was boiling out of the pan. Whoops! -Another tragedy- I dont have a candy thermometer, that is a tragedy by itself.