I love my Joy of Cooking cookbook. Last night I made acorn squash with apples and pears and hubby and I both enjoyed it. The last time I cooked acorn squash it just wasn't terribly good, but I really wanted to try again, as it just seems such a nice, autumnal thing to do. I want to make soup this coming weekend. I made a batch of low-sodium vegetable broth on Sunday, so I can start with that. I've been wanting to make an apple or prune cake, but hubby and I usually wind up wasting desserts. We like them, but a whole cake is too much for us, and recipes like that often don't turn out the same when you cut them in half. But the other day I realized I could bake a whole one, cut in half and freeze half to be sealed in hubby's Foodsaver. He'd wanted one for a long time, and I told Mom & Dad they could get him one last Christmas. He never used it until a month or so ago when he started cooking and freezing veggie lasagnas and eggplant parmesan to use up the nice tomatoes and eggplant he grew this summer. Now we'll try that sucker out with dessert. Cake, I'm gonna have cake, and eat some, too!