@sworonoff
Let's see......... Raised by my Mother, she held two jobs to make ends meet. So, she gave my choice of "things to do" around the house. My first choice was cooking. That was at age eleven. Since then my avocation in life has been cooking. As a single parent my son, like my Mother so many years ago, has been the recipient of "trial and error" recipes. As you might imagine some have been keepers and some.........well you know. For me there is nothing better than to have a few friends over, them sitting at the kitchen table sipping a good wine and me puttering around the cooking up a favorite dinner.