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Tortilla soup with a chicken stock base: i use squash, kidney beans, corn and tomatoes in the soup and put out fried tortilla chips, avocado, salsa, cheese and jalapenos for guests to add.

I am about to make a peach gallette on mine. First time use...we will see.

Chopped with tomato, onion, cilantro, salt and pepper as a salad or a main lunch for me!

I am getting the Cuisinart Multicooker and a trifle dish and the Le Creuset butter keeper. He already gifted me the 16 cup Cuisinart Processor when I was canning up the garden into relishes. What a wonderful tool that is!

Tortilla soup for the grown-ups and hot dogs for the kids.

Well, now that I have basically been called pretty stupid for liking Subway and enjoying the smell of fresh bread and fresh vegetables and being able to control my calories I keep wondering why I even come to this site. Subway fills a need. I eat a 6" turkey/ham every day to control my weight. I think they are delicious. I am delighted that they exist. I agree that there are tastier options but for the calories, I love me some Subway. Some of you are just mean!

Plan ahead for if the power goes out for a long time. We lost it for 9 days after Charley in Florida. If you are evacuating, before you go, put all your frozen food in garbage bags and put it back in the freezer. If you lose the food at least you wont lose the freezer; just throw the bag away. We had huge parties every night after Charley where we grilled everything that was going to go bad if we didn't eat it. We fired up the smoker and smoked for days. Coffee was the toughest. No fresh ground. I started stocking a jar of (horrors) instant. Caffeine is caffeine after a couple of days.

While this isn't up there with the high end items above, we had a baby far from our families years ago in South Carolina. My Daddy was recovering from a stroke and my Mama could not come and help us. I was feeling overwhelmed when a neighbor knocked and handed me this huge plate of the best oatmeal raisin cookies I have ever eaten.

I was really proud of dinner last night because everything except the salmon and mozzarella came from the garden: grilled salmon, homegrown tomatoes, basil, red onion and mozzarella ; grilled yellow squash, steamed baby new potatoes and dill.

Seriously, many of you are just ripe for a stroke here. Take a breath and settle down. Such anger over food isn't healthy and we are all about healthy, beautiful food.

Gwyneth Paltrow made anti-American comments several years ago that she had to retract. At least use people who appreciate what good lives America allows them to have. I don't mind that she wrote a cookbook and that they use her in an article, but I am insulted that she is on the cover. I want to see food. I often make the cover recipe just as soon as the magazine hits the door. I have bought Bon Apetit since 1975 but I may rethink it now.

We used to just move the liquor cabinet contents and the blender to the garage when my extremely religious parents in law visited. If we needed a break or a drink we met in the garage and had one. I would never have asked any other family members or neighbors to do the same, however.

We bought mine in 1974 when I was pregnant and wanted to bake bread for my new baby.