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My little garden grows cherries, plums, quince, gooseberries, currants, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and rhubarb. I preserve it all. But what am I most proud of? I can my own chicken and beef stock!

I spent three pre-dawn hours parked in front of a french bakery in Providence, RI to purchase - not baguettes - but palmiers: the best best best french pastry. I bought a dozen and ate them all.

Cornbread and biscuits

Soup soup soup and soup: today it's hot and sour soup. Yesterday, bean and cabbage.

Eat less meat.

Short ribs. No doubt, short ribs.

Corn Bread Dressing with Pecans and Bacon deserves a place at the dinner table, but the drop biscuits will appear at breakfast!

40 years ago I copied a recipe from a bag of flour for "can-do" cookies. They were plain rollout sugar cookies that could be adapted as drop cookies or chip cookies or peanut butter cookies or raisin cookies or... The magic of the recipe was that it called for all ingredients to be dumped at once into the mixer and just beaten til combined. Then you could add ingredients, roll it out and bake, or make a log for the refrigerator and bake small batches in the toaster oven. Now, these are not distinguished cookies, but they are fast and easy, and they hit the spot!

I spare myself the typing by quoting danlevy above:

"Oh, that is easy! it's the Arrosto di maiale al latte, which the first commenter mentioned too. That is just a superb dish, almost infallible, and totally unlike anything I'd eaten before. But Marcella's recipe for Ragu Bolognese is also perfect."

I make both of these regularly.

Butternut squash - a base with cream for a soup with broccoli florets and bits of tomato. I can't wait!

I'd head down to Brazil to catch up with my mother's family... but I'd stop in Kansas City on the way!

Plain bok choy in garlic sauce.