I use to tell people I may have never been able to make a good praline but I could throw a punch....lol. I use to feel really bad for my kids because I couldn't cook good at all. I was just one of those kids whose mom wasn't a Suzie homemaker...I guess it didn't help she couldn't read. My first banana bread you could of used for a football and my second attempt found one cutting into it and the inside rolling out. I did get quite good at it eventually, thank goodness by their teen years they came out with the food network, it much approved my cooking skills.