I also enjoy cooking, a friend of mines wife makes everything from scratch which is a dying art and she makes home made salsa, spaghetti sauce, tomato paste/jam that is heavenly on sandwiches, burgers, all straight from the garden. The sweetness is SO good you'll swear there is raw sugar mixed in, NOPE all natural. My zucchini's this year were amazing, made the best Stir Fry, or even baked zucc chips... delicious!! Also got a TON of pepper varieties this year that EXPLODED with fruit. A few jalapenos that turned red, pretty cool, some of the serrano's did as well. Even the cajun mild bells turned greenish yellow and reddish orange, FUN stuff.