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A veggie pizza that has canned pumpkin mixed in with the sauce and loaded with vegetables.

Chewy warm brownie (with walnuts) topped with vanilla ice cream topped with hot fudge sauce topped with whipped cream, hold the cherry.

My grandma would render fat from a small slab of bacon. She used the fat to make different rice dishes (she was Spanish and that was a staple in the household) and then she would give us the cracklins for us to eat. That was such a treat!

I come from the Caribbean and my fondest memories are of going to my aunt's annual Christmas (or Epiphany) feast and having a whole roast pig. It was quite a production, two or three men would bring the pig and place it with all sorts of extras. Wonderful taste!

Brie cheese, thin apple slices, light mustard on some really good wheat bread or sourdough bread.

I made my first pie using her pie crust recipe so I would say that one, but I have to say, I love that you can take any of her recipes and it will work.

It's a Barefoot Contessa recipe, Linguine with Shrimp Scampi.

Season with olive oil and kosher salt then baste with seasoned butter.

Anything I don't have to cook and solid chocolate bunny, preferably dark chocolate, but I'm not picky.

Kugel, rugelach, NY deli-style corned beef sandwiches...

I made buttermilk baked chicken, All-American potato salad, homemade mayonnaise, challah bread french toast. So far, everything has turned out wonderful, her recipes are excellent!

Twenty-five years ago I went to the original Carnegie Deli, before they became a movie thing, and had a bagel with lox, cream cheese, sliced onion and capers. It was so huge I made 2 meals out of that sandwich. I still can taste it... P.S., I don't think it cost me more than $8.00.

I've made a couple of recipes and they turned out great. Also, learned how to boil a perfect hard boiled egg, sounds weird, but it really was perfect.