Grilled foods with sauteed veggies, Homemade sauces of all kinds, Italian dishes, Braised stews, Sweet potatos and squashes, especially purees sweet and sour meatballs for the holidays mom's famous beef stew braised lamb stew, dijon chicken, sweet potato/parsnip/butternut squash puree (it's so yummy!), the art of making a wide variety of homemade sauces from traditional italian red sauce, to a lemon sauce, a tomato vodka sauce, or a madeira cream sauce lumping gravy! i learned from that mistake and haven't had another incident