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I love an open faced ham sammy with some whole grain mustard and a fried egg.

I think it is hardest to cook with my mom. We get along, but seems like we're both control freaks in the kitchen.

Mmmm, ham. On a french roll with dilled havarti, lettuce, and plenty of sharp mustard. Wrap it and eat out in nature somewhere.

Ham, mayo, cheddar cheese and thinly sliced granny smith apple on any hearty bread is good. Or ham, swiss, grainy mustard on rye is another fave. No plastic orange singles or white wonder bread need apply.

This rocks my world.

Every year I make an apple cider punch with Laird's for pumpkin carving festivities. There is often some leftover unmixed, and it is fantastic to have a new recipe in which to use the last bits. (It otherwise gets used medicinally in hot toddies during the first cold of the season.)

Laird's isn't that hard to find. In New York CIty you can find it at a surprising number of neighborhood liquor stores, and it is always in stock at Astor Place. In Boston, Marty's on Washington Street in Newtonville has it. The NH state liquor store carries it, as well.

Easy - the dogs are the devils in my Kitchen. Constantly demanding samples. The good news is that since they arrived the kitchen floor has never been cleaner!

I nominate me, I am trying to do better, but I am like a whirling dervish in the kitchen leaving a path of destruction in my wake. I am trying to be a neater cook, I am trying to be a neater cook, I am trying to be a neater cook. (I figure if I keep saying it it will happen.