To those out there that enjoy cooking what dish are you known for

[IrishAyes]

43. I cook a lot, partly because I garden.

Started reading cookbooks for fun at an early age.

Just to mention one dish: Mediterranean rice. Cook your rice as desired: While it's hot, add plenty of soy sauce, toasted almonds, fruit, and black currants. You really can't go wrong unless you burn the rice. When out of soy sauce once, I just threw in some s&s. Sorta like gumbo - needs certain things but blesses creativity. Thinking of gumbo, the commercially prepared stuff is ridiculous. They'll offer rice and shrimp if you're lucky, okra if you even luckier. Real gumbo takes at least 3 different kinds of meat, seafood, and all sorts of veggies. I used to catch crayfish barehanded to throw in my gumbo.