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The Cooks Illustrated simple brine and roasting method sounds great!

Michigan-Cornish pasties & fudge in the UP, fried lake perch, potatoes from the thumb, tart cherries, apples in September, asparagus, navy beans......to name a few.

the smell of bacon frying and coffee. And grandpa 'sassering' his coffee (when the coffee was too hot to drink, grandpa would pour some into his saucer for a quick cool off).

Chicken pot pie!

My husband's summer of BBQ sparerib research and development....and finding perfection. Heaven!

Swiss and whole grain mustard. Simple.

Alexis' chocolate chip cookies!

I'm old enough to remember my great grandmother (Granny!) killing, cleaning 5 chickens on Sat., frying it and feeding at least 30 on Sunday. Along with pie, coconut cake, fresh peaches, greens, cornbread, purplehull peas, fresh tomatoes, green beans, sweet tea. Vegetables were fresh from her garden. The men and children ate while the women 'served' the table, the women ate the remainders during cleanup. Granny wore cotton dresses and hose just over her knees everyday. She dipped snuff and was a devout Christian. Granny died in 1984 at the age of 94. Sigh. The memories give me a lump in my throat.

The all time best pie I ever had was cherry. Tart cherries picked fresh from the tree.....mmmmmmm!

ribs, tater salad

homemade bbq sauce for pork, just salt & freshly ground pepper for everything else!

My mother makes pretty darn good cornbread, her mother did too. I make pretty darn good corn bread as well.

chocolate cake!