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My family would be happy if I'd make them chicken and dumplings at least once a week. (And it's so easy!)

I like pumpkin bread, but my favorite is good pumpkin pie.

When I was small, I used my mother's Betty Crocker cookbook. When I married, she gave me one of my own and I use it still, although a host of other cookbooks have joined it on the bookshelves.

The best barbeque I've ever had was from one of those hole in the wall places kinda' like Bob started with. This man would haul his grills out and cook ribs all day and people came from miles around. There were no tables to sit down, so he wrapped your food up in newspaper for you to take home. This was in Hillsdale, MO, and I can't for the life of me remember the name.

I was in London and a group of us went to dinner with an Indian acquaintance. He ordered a variety of dishes for us and everything was wonderful. I'm a fan of good Indian food, but don't have any good recipes.

I have an old Hershey's cookbook that produces marvelous results every time. I make a great chocolate cake with a little strong, black coffee added for flavor.

I don't have a favorite vendor, but the Farmers Market in Bloomington, IN, is marvelous. We stop (and shop mightily) there whenever we visit our daughter.

My grandma made the best biscuits ever. I can make good biscuits, but hers were fantastic.

I actually saw Beer Can Chicken on the menu at a restaurant in the D.C. area a few weeks back, so I guess I can count mine as a culinary success. Hard as it may be to get someone to drink about half a can of beer in order to have the rest for cooking, I've always managed to find someone to take care of that part. It's a fun thing to cook when there are kids around, because they find it hilarious to see a chicken sitting on a can of beer. And it's always tender and tasty, so it's one of my favorite barbeque dishes to prepare.

Chicken Fried Rice - heavy on the veggies and light on the chicken.

Shepard's Pie is a wonderful cold weather comfort food.

It is not only the spices
Nor just the meat
Savor the mingling