My favorite recipes 11/10/11

Meet Christina Lionetti, Pullman

Christina Lionetti loves to bake, but she doesn’t like to eat her own creations. Christina’s husband, Fred, and two-year-old daughter, Clementine, never complain about having too many cupcakes to eat. Her neighbors and friends also benefit from Christina’s baking.

“I love to bake,” Christina said. “I don’t usually eat what I bake. I’d rather eat a Reese’s peanut butter cup.”

While growing up in the Los Angeles area, neither she nor her mother cooked. Her meals were a combination of eating out or simple foods like hot dogs and macaroni and cheese out of a box. H...