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I really want to try the Pioneer Woman's Sweet Potatoes. Yum.

Other than this and PWC? I like Smitten Kitchen and Dorie Greenspan's blog...and occasionally drop in on Cheap, Healthy, Good & Joy the Baker.

For me, it's got to be the first apple crisp of the fall...ideally with some tart NY apples!

I usually leave the grilling to someone else...though I'm still trying to work out the timing on veggies for the grill pan, the past couple of times I've combined things that have very different cook times which results in either undercooked or charred.

pasta putanesca with green beans!

I'm going to have to agree with the challah fans.

That's tough...oven-roasted broccoli or cauliflower is amazing flavorwise for a simple veggie...but avocado & montery jack grilled cheese sandwiches are awfully good too!

The funniest (both at the time and in retrospect) was the time that I left the last batch of Festive Winter Holiday cookies in the oven to go out on and fetch more supplies for icing, giving my DH instructions to take them out in 10 minutes when the timer rang. Came back home over an hour later, and guess what was still charring away in the oven?

I'd take a pie from Virgilio's over BeauJo's any day. For the folks who like the fishies; the puttanesca pizza is excellent. I've also heard good things about Marco's, and have it on my list of places to try.

A well-toasted onion bagel, cream cheese, lox, thin red onion, and a couple of capers...mmm.

I have a couple of pumpkins from my CSA, so that Pumpkin Cheesecake with the marshmallow sour-cream topping sounds super-yummy right now!

What an evil question! Right now, I'd go with a Dark Bacchus (rum raisin ganache) from La Maison du Chocolat (or heck, the whole dark assortment)...or possibly a homemade Rose Levy Bernbaum's Brownie Puddle so I could have the full chocolate experience of watching it melt and being able to lick the spoon!