For those of us with July birthdays and those of us who cook for July birthdays: What's your signature birthday food? Cake, main dish, whole meal, your choice.

Certainly related to growing up in a very small town in Missouri, mine is blackberry cobbler, the way the women in my family have always made it, with both a top and bottom pastry crust. Other things are swell, but that's the real deal for me.

Yours?