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One of our favorite family meals is New England Saturday Night Supper:
Hot dogs (or occasionally hamburgers), NE baked beans, corn bread.

Cheap, fast and easy: Pasta tossed with a little softened butter and Parmesan cheese.

My first cookbook was a (now very old) "Joy of Cooking." I think the second was a paperback -- a Golden Pocket Cookbook, which was quite good and set me back $0.35.

My two irresistable small treats are (1) Chocolate-covered fruit and (2) Deviled eggs.

Based upon what I actually bake, it has got to be cornbread. I love to get up early enough to bake cornbread for breakfast

When it's really hot, we find making a couscous salad to be easy and delicious.

Perhaps the earliest dish I "helped" to cook was Penuche fudge that my grandfather would make on occasion when he came to visit. I must have been 6 or 7 at the time.

I don't know if this is a 'twist' but I like to combine colorful, sauteed vegetables with either crisped bacon or crisped pancetta and tossed with pasta. Could be tossed in either a light sauce, so the colors show, or in simple butter/garlic/grated cheese sauce.

For a bread with strong flavor, I like olive bread; for a more conventional bread, I like oatmeal bread.

My wife & I managed to pull off a sit-down dinner for 14 without a hitch in a small house with barely enough room and barely enough chairs.

I make a similar soup using Kale (minus the hard stems) and potatoes. At the very end I add 1/2 pound of Kielbasa sliced very thin. This adds substance and flavor.

Pfeffernuise: lit: ‘Pepper-nose.’ The painful burning sensation in your nose when you inhale too deeply smelling cayenne or other ground peppers. Sometimes erroneously applied to the painful burning sensation in your nose when you inhale other spices.

Spaghetti and meatballs: What you get when a Pastafarian tries to represent the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I love Brussels Sprouts. This sounds like a very good way of preparing them.