I am a home cook.  I bake for my family, my friends, and occasionally someone out there will pay me to make desserts for parties or their wedding (which I consider a supreme honor, so thank you for that!), but I have no formal training.  I am self-taught, driven by a passion for delicious perfection and making people happy in that slow-blink-drop-the-yum-bomb kind of way.  (You know, the face the folks on The Food Network make when they taste their own food?)