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I have heard oatmeal cookies (add raisins for more nutrition) work well.

I'm a farmers market purist. None of that prepared food for me! My favorite vendor at the Alachua County Farmers Market is Pat Carlisle. She grows an array of fruits and vegetables on land that has had nothing artificial used on it since at least the 1940s.

A neighbor gave us an eggplant she had grown in our garden and my mother made fried eggplant. It was great. I never ate eggplant again until after I left home because only vegetables my father liked were ever served - and eggplant was not among them.

If I find surplus ricotta in the fridge, I am likely to make pseudo-lasagna - any type of pasta layered with ricotta and tomato sauce.

My only foreign trip was to Canada as a child. While staying in Quebec, we ended up in a French only little family restaurant called Chez Oscar at lunchtime. My parents' high school French lessons apparently did not cover restaurant menus. They discovered later they would have been served sweetbreads (not a favorite dish) had the restaurant not been out of them. I don't remember what we did eat, but it was nothing unusual.

Here (Gainesville, FL) we have no Trader Joe's, but we can buy some varieties of King Arthur Flour at Publix, Albertsons, and Winn-Dixie. Maybe other King Arthur followers can find it at supermarkets in their areas.

I often make stir fried vegetables to serve over rice. By adding just a bit of chicken, beef, or pork, the flavor is enhanced and the dish is heartier.

Barbecue is not
About sauce. Smoke controls
All for the purist.

I'll have a brownie with walnuts.

Give me a brownie with walnuts

Sirloin is my fave.