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Lately I have really been enjoying the extra dry cider from Aspall, see: http://dev.aspall.co.uk/, I get it locally from Whole Foods as one of their stores had it on the shelf and they're the only supplier that I've found that carries it.

I make Peppermint Patties fairly regularly, but my usual method is just tweaks on this even simpler recipe by Anne:

Christmas Candy: Peppermint Patties

[usual tweaks, ratio differences to alter filling texture, and a touch extra of the extracts.]

OK, definitely way too over-simplified. As with most things there are boundary conditions that very much do not fit into the rules listed.

For instance:

1. "Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."

Having lived in and associated with people both in larger cities and very small towns, I've seen people that never leave where they live their entire life. Up through several decades ago some of those in the smaller areas might have had a hard time finding certain imported items/ideas like mangos, kangaroo, kimchee, etc. Is this item in the list a back-handed way of endorsing the "eat local" movement, or is it just ignoring that there have been some people with very limited exposure to the "other" that would actually reject some of those very other items as "not food"?

3. "Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot."

Some foods seem nearly too perfect, like honey: If we can find it still edible, however desiccated, after thousands of years, then that rule is certainly right out.

5. "Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle."

Big presumption on layout of the market...or maybe not. At any rate, go near the center of most I shop in and you'll find the flours, dried pastas (yes, they're generally better fresh but the certainly do not have to be), rice, beans, lentils, etc. What you have there are some of the basics that there is no way I'd consider avoiding.

I have similar thoughts and comments on many of the other rules, but will have to save those for another time since I gotta run right now.

ok, after recently having been given some that was way too flabby in part I say unreservedly: crispy

Pork Roulade - cooked bacon that's been chopped, with pickles, mustard, onions, etc; surrounded by more flat pork goodness, that's then wrapped and tied with more bacon and cooked to perfection. Hail to the pig!

Lamb Vindaloo. I was greatly disappointed when the owners of my favorite Indian restaurant moved away from the small (only one local Indian restaurant) town and the place closed. I started researching one of my favorite Indian dishes, analyzed several dozen other recipes and ended up with my own vindaloo.