I started cooking in high school when Mom assigned dinner nights, but have more recently developed quite the appreciation for the true "art". Goodies of all sorts & yeast breads (if I'm to be honest, it's the kneading of the dough that I truly love)! Our family Christmas Eve party in which the cooking begins a week ahead of time! What began as a few cookies and oyster stew has turned into pages of excel tables as to what gets started and finished when, and a spread that even 45 guests hardly made a dent in! A "perfect" cheesecake; a blue ribbon at our church pie bake off; and lots of family dinners in which the food is devoured! Sunday pot roast- turned out more like beef jerky; a dinner party in which I made stuffed chicken breasts but didn't think when I secured them during baking with colored toothpicks.... needless to say I served blue and green chicken.