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Roasted chicken (roasted atop a bed of root vegetables) and a salad or maybe some pilaf. Delicious!

Pumpkin bread pudding with caramel sauce. Or just about anything with pumpkin or squash in it - I'm a sucker for squash!

Unlike other commenters, I have one of these and after trying it a few time, decided I hate using it. I'm going to have to give it away.

If your apples are slightly bumpy or misshaped, it doesn't work well. Adjusting the wingnut to change how much peel is coming off is harder to do than you would think. The suction cup on mine has never satisfactorily attached to any surface I've used. The metal parts started rusting after the first use.

The last time I used it, I decided a paring knife would have taken me about half the time. Good riddance!

I love how bacon inspires me. For instance, I was in the middle of doing something at work and all of a sudden the thought of bacon shortbread cookies popped into my head. Mmm, I thought, I'm going to have to try making those!

I've always said I'd love to wear a bacon fragrance. Will someone please develop that?

That reminds me of a meal I cooked in my college dorm room using a hot plate and a coffee maker. Peas cook marvelously in the carafe of a coffee maker!

I moved away from Chicago in January and wish that Kuma's would open a location here in California. I'm partial to the Kuma's burger as well as the Led Zepplin. Mmmm.

@Bhdancegirl - Hot Doug's and Smoque are the other places I miss from Chicago! Yummy.

Fage + a little bit of pumpkin butter = immediate gratification version of pumpkin cheesecake. Use Fage 0% and it's like non-fat cheesecake. Sooooo yummy.

Mmm, Negronis with Sapphire. Yummy!

Having previously worked for a marketing company that designed Happy Meal toys for McDonalds, I can tell you that the toys weren't only designed to appeal to kids...they were also designed to appeal to adults with the "collector" mentality. Those adults may or may not have had children.

I can also say that it was part of my job to go to other restaurants, like Burger King, to procure sets of toys they were offering so we could study the competition. Sometimes the restaurants would sell the toys to me without the meal but other times there were burgers aplenty around the office. We threw lots of them away.

But back to the kids - I think the toys train them to be consumers but not necessarily of the accompanying fast food. I've seen too many uneaten Happy Meals. Commercials for any type of toy train kids to be consumers.

Love the plate licking noises too!

I've ordered 4 dozen mochi ice creams from Hawaii, just to satisfy my craving for Bubbie's pumpkin mochi. I had to make room in the freezer! Mmmm.

Like many others, I've cut out most meat from my diet. Now I eat mostly vegetarian and add meat every once in a while.

I've never quite gotten used to dark chocolate so I'm really happy about these!