Hello AllRecipeeps, I'm BigShotsMom and BigShot is the lovely feline who frequently poses as my avatar and is never far from me and the possibility of food.

I think I started using AllRecipes almost as soon as it became something Google recognized, back when Google was starting out.  As the owner of enough cookbooks to start my own library, I hardly needed a website full of recipes, right?  But it was convenient if I was at work to direct my daughter to s specific recipe and she could start it before I got home.  I was not a member and really never paid attention to all the other tabs.  Then I stopped working, daughter left for college and to stave off boredom I decided to overcome my fear of yeast and learn to make bread.  That is when I discovered the Buzz, which back then was called Recipe Exchange.

In addition to help with baking bread, I found entertainment, camaraderie, and some truly amazingly warm caring friends.  We have laughed together, mourned together, worried over one another's health and familiy, supported each other and become more than a community.  I think of this as a large, noisy, warm, inviting kitchen.  And we have produced some really good food!