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Just made this recipe for my husband's birthday - it turned out amazing! Used Meyer's dark rum and the glaze turned out dark, caramelized and glorious. Added more allspice ( fresh ground) and will add nutmeg next time to get more spice. Not boozy tasting, very balanced and worth making again.

I would have to say the most versatile boozy ingredient for cooking is brandy - it works wonderful in pate or desserts. We just made seared duck breasts with a brandy fig compote that was amazing! I also love making brandied cranberries for the holidays (yay Simply Recipes!)

Coming from a poor family, we didn't purchase cook books. My grandmother had a recipe drawer in the kitchen, and in that was every single free recipe she could clip and hand written recipes that were passed down from family and friends. I remember when I was very young getting to go through it and pick whatever I wanted her to make and making it together. This inevitably meant we were making that weird giant rabbit cake from some Kraft Easter recipe, covered in shaved coconut and jelly beans. She indulged me greatly with this because I NEVER wanted to eat it; I just wanted to make it :)

Most triumphant and most disastrous - the first thing I ever baked was a complete victory for me, despite it being very nearly a disaster. When I was 7 or 8, I decided to make a devil’s food cake out of my grandmother's recipe box. I made the whole thing myself, while she sat at the kitchen table playing cards, drinking coffee, and when I pulled it out of the oven, so excited and proud, it was as flat as a pancake. I forgot to use a single egg. The cake tasted wonderful, but looked just terrible. My grandmother ate it and told me it was wonderful.

pickles dipped in orange juice (makes the orange juice taste super sweet! - and it must be Donald Duck orange juice)

lemon jam thumb print cookies and vienna sausages (camping mishap, but it was AMAZING)

potato chip sandwiches - white bread, lays, and mayo. drool...

cornbread mashed in a cup and covered in milk was a favorite of my grandparents - all cold. Has anyone else had this?

kids will eat what their parents put in front of them. I imagine getting rid of the toys isn't going to stop parents from going to get fast food and plopping their kid down. At least the toy gets them active and playing after the meal - or even better, the play area. this isn't a problem for the government, it's a problem for parents.

The only thing my grandfather would make that was off the grill was oyster stew. When I was about 6, I remember him making it special just for him and me. I loved it - that is, until he told me it wasn't oysters, but elephant boogers. I immediately (and I'm sure this was his plan) fished out every single little black oyster and put them into his bowl. But I can still remember his laugh and that rich stew.

We watch Futurama every night :) Yes, I know, I'm a dork. But I do love it! There are a lot of food references - the ice cream soup is a good one! The sterno nicoise is also a favorite.

when I was little, my grandmother had a drawer in her kitchen that was filled with baking recipes she'd clipped out of magazines or off of products. My favorite thing to do was to pick out one she could make for me. I have a very fond memory of a giant rabbit cake, shapped like a bunny (but since we didn't have the money for the fancy pan, she cut the sheet cake into a bunny head shape!), covered in shredded coconut and jelly beans. She knew that I couldn't stand to eat the cake, I just liked the way it looked, but she made it anyway.

Then, when I got older, about 7 or 8, going to it and her encouraging me to pick something to bake. The first thing I ever made was a chocolate devils food cake from a recipe in that drawer. But I forgot to put a single egg in it! She ate every bit.

To escape the office, I frequently eat out alone at my favorite place, Eastern Lights (Durham, NC). They know me, they have delicious food, and they leave me alone so I can read. I love to read during lunch, and if I'm at work, my boss insists on talking to me, despite the fact that I have my back to him and a book touching my nose. Any book I'm reading is good, but I love the Anita Blake books. Vampires, adventure, and zombies go so well with handmade Chinese noodles... Plus the paperback size it just perfect for the one hand reading, one hand with chopsticks method.

there are more bugs than people, if we're discussing survival. and I'm geeked out by the thought. I don't think I could eat horse, and I am still working on rabbit, so I gotta say human is off. and fuman (very very funny!) - if we taste like chicken, why not just eat chicken?

Julia Child does this on her show (god I love netflix!) and she made it look so easy! The layers of butter and dough...maybe not easy, but definitely delicious. take a saturday and start early :p