My Favorite Recipes; Meet Mischa Gergen, Colfax

"There's a purpose and design for everything," said Mischa Gergen who has traveled a very rough road to come to that conclusion.

Mischa moved to the area in 2000. She attended the University of Idaho and worked as a special ed preschool teacher for seven years.

During that time, she married. After two years of marriage, they went to see a doctor because her husband had lost a lot of weight. What Mischa did not know at the time was he had also been having bloody stool, stomach cramping and a change in appetite for about six months. The diagnosis was advanced colon cancer.

"I think there's a big...