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@Cassaendra -- My favorite meals are some combination of soup, sandwich and salad. I've already had a soup lunch, so I'll have to plan a sandwich supper. Yum!

I tried this and it was...okay. It certainly didn't have the richness described and needed at least some of the optional ingredients. To be fair, the meat I used could have led to the lack of richness. I'm going to add beans and Rotel tomatoes today, let it simmer longer and see what happens.

@LizLemon -- here's some White Texas Sheet Cake recipes:

http://southernfood.about.com/od/yellowandwhitecakes/r/bl30322c.htm

http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=39&articleid=20090506_39_D1_Chocol46727
(scroll down for the White Texas Sheet Cake recipe. This recipe comes from someone in Pioneer Woman's hometown.

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/White-Texas-Sheet-Cake

http://wegottaeat.com/mandstapp/recipes/white-texas-sheet-cake
(this one is supposedly from Paula Deen)

@betteirene -- I'm afraid that regional American cooking is going to disappear. Between chain restaurants, cookbooks and magazines, eating and cooking is getting much more homogenized.

I'm a fan of sugar cream pie, I just don't eat it daily -- or even monthly. I had the butter and sugar sandwiches when I was a youngster -- also peanut butter and brown sugar. I'm not sure that a butter/sugar sandwich is any worse than grilled cheese made with processed cheese food.

There's also some evidence that by adding the bacon or bacon grease to greens, for instance, you make them taste better and people eat more of the greens. The fat makes some of the nutrients in the greens more accessible.

@MarvinDog -- I think the French might be surprised to find out that duck confit is unhealthy.

@tacoo -- It's all about moderation. Unfortunately, over the last 30 years or so we've been taught that if a lot of something is bad, then none is best.

When I was a kid one of our neighbors gave out popcorn balls every Halloween and I waited for them every year. They were the best treat I got. The candy I could get any time (providing Mom would buy it). The popcorn balls were like Christmas cookies -- they only came once a year.

I love the idea of homemade treats, but they're not something I'd do for everyone. Only for family, friends, neighbors and coworkers and their children. Pretty much the same folks I give homemade treats at Christmas.

I find it to be more expensive to shop at my local farmer's market than to buy food at the most expensive grocery in my area -- and that's just the basics, not heirloom vegetables, artisanal breads and cheeses.

I tried to follow the Food Stamp Challenge a year or so ago. It was difficult at the grocery; impossible at the farmer's market.

Banana spice cake with PB frosting would guarantee that I'd stick to my diet. That doesn't appeal to me at all. I like carrot cake and German chocolate cake, but my all-time favorite is angel food cake. Not cakes, but two other desserts that most people like are peach cobbler and apple crisp. If served with a big dollop of whipped cream or ice cream -- so much the better!

I'll miss seeing Gourmet at the newsstand, but I've never consistently used it. I don't think I've ever made a recipe from it.

Hash browns or any kind of hash with potatoes.

In the mid-1960s when I was a teenager I inherited my mom's cookbooks. There was an old Betty Crocker, a Better Homes and Gardens, a Woman's Home Companion and a Searchlight cookbook. All were circa 1940. I used the Betty Crocker and Better Homes and Gardens quite a bit. Over time, I gave away both, but now wish I had them!

I understand Haney is from Indianapolis. We need her pies here!

I'm doing nearly everything in the oven -- brisket, baked beans and corn. Plus a salad with romaine, apples, cheddar cheese, almonds, dried cranberries, and honey balsamic vinaigrette.