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Chicken pot pie

the baguette

For potatoes, towards. For carrots, away.

creme brulee

Fly me to the moon

At work during the week, I take it black. At home on the weekends, I take it with some milk.

This sounds delicious, despite Rosewood's ridiculous comment. I can't wait to try it, especially since it sounds like it will have a pronounced ginger flavor. With some many variations of mole, each with very distinctive tastes, it's crazy to say that you don't like mole. I've come across some that I didn't like at all, but there have been many more that have been amazingly good.

I'd have to go for the Grilled Cream Cheese and Green Olive sandwiches my mom used to make. I've never come across them anywhere else. Made just like a regular grilled cheese, but with slices of cream cheese and green olives (hold the pimientos, please!). By the time the bread gets perfectly grilled, the thick slices of cream cheese are starting to melt and ooze, surrounding the sliced green olives. One of my favorite sandwiches growing up. Salty, creamy, crunchy, delicious.

Sauces. Whether it's a pan sauce, a quick chimichurri, pesto or salsa, the easiest way for me to add flavor and variety to a boring piece of meat is with a quick sauce.

I like Cook Illustrated's Classic Mac and Cheese. It's not a fancy version and it's not ultra healthy, since it has a stick of butter and a pound of cheese, but making it with fat-free milk cuts down on some fat, and you don't notice the difference. And it makes a lot, so you can enjoy it for days!

an eclair filled with a dulce de leche cream

@Teachertalk: you still need your cookbooks! eatyourbooks doesn't store the recipes; it just indexes them by ingredient and recipe name so you can search them all easily. It's a great concept and really has helped me get more use of all my books. I'm jealous of your 500+ books...someday I'll get there!

I was going to go with something from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but after reading other comments about Laura Ingalls Wilder, it reminded me of how fascinated I was reading out her making maple candy by pouring maple syrup in the snow. Coming from a snowless childhood, I always wanted to do that.