For those who like to cook

How did I miss this thread? Late for the party, but nothing new for me. :rolleyes:

My Dad owned a restaurant when I was a kid. I was cooking as a pro at the ripe old age of 14 when he rousted me out of bed at 0400 one Sunday morning telling me the breakfast cook was in jail for drunk and disorderly, and I was the new chef de jour.

Fast forward an entire life, I've been cooking ever since. In college I got free eats by offering to cook weekend dinners for anyone who would buy the ingredients. I never went hungry. My all-time favorite is Mexican food of just about any variety, but I can and will chef up just about anything and as my waistline will attest, things tend to come out pretty well. I recently got a Traeger smoker and love it, one more tool in the culinary chest.

Cook from a recipe, cook from scratch, cook from some bright idea in my head, it's all good. I rarely turn out a turd that goes down the disposal. Now if I could just figure out how to cook for one (instead of cooking for one hundred).