Grad student in literature at the University of Rochester. Cakes and other baked goods, homemade marinara sauce, Basque-inspired pintxos, anything in my wok Chicken and dumplings, Admonition Coconut Cake, mom's spaghetti sauce I baked a 3-layer German chocolate cake for my boyfriend's birthday. My first ever cheesecake (for a friend's dinner party) turned out perfectly. First attempt at Thanksgiving dinner was a hit. I cooked the turkey in a crockpot and made pumpkin soup. Thanks to Sweetened Condensed milk, my pumpkin pie is requested every Fall by friends and family alike. Put cornmeal into butterscotch brownie mix instead of flour in middle school (I should have read the box). Lit the kitchen on fire trying to cook falafel in high school and then was so in shock all I could do was laugh about it when my dad got there. Oops. I haven't attempted it since.