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My favorite cornbread is made from a recipe in my Betty Crocker wedding edition cookbook. Its comes together in no time, is baked in an 8x8 dish and comes out sweet, moist and just dense enough. YUM!

The outer piece of ham with the crispy skin

Thank you for this post! I am not pregnant now nor do I plan to have my first child for several years, but the idea of eating healthily and keeping pregnancy weight gain within the healthy range has been something I have always been interested in and plan to keep a careful eye on when I do become pregnant. Best wishes for a wonderful pregnancy!

molten chocolate cake or the chocolate pudding from Queen Mary's Tea Room in Seattle

Boca Negra cake from Bakingbites.com

My mom's family's chocolate sauce: a measure of cocoa (I generally go for a cup), twice that measure of sugar, mix the two, mix in a measure of water that is halfway between your cocoa and sugar measurements, pinch of salt, boil. The longer you boil, the more like thick fudge sauce it will be once it is cooled. Keeps in the fridge for several weeks...if it there's any of it left to be put away once I'm finished with it warm from the pan.

Yes, do tell us what to boil! This recipe sounds great!

I went to Lilliebelle Farm's store in Oregon last fall and met Jeff, the man behind the chocolate, and of course had to take home some of the Smokey Blue Truffles. You can't go wrong with any of his chocolates. The fruit filled bonbons (swoon), the ganache filled chocolates, the strawberry balsamic pate de fruit (oh my gosh); all of it = YUM.

Pretty much any way I can: homemade chocolate sauce, chunks of dark chocolate, hot chocolate. My favorite ways would probably be in the form of dense fudgy brownies, molten chocolate cake and chocolate cobbler...yummmmm

brown rice and whole wheat breads/bagels/english muffins etc

brown rice, steamed veggies, grilled chicken

baked butternut squash "fries", steamed broccoli, canned greenbeans (oh the horror, I know)