My soups...chili,red sauce,clam chowder.polenta with beef cubes and cream puff filings spiced with brandy and rum are the BEST tasting servings in the World! The influence was Mom of course...who was a lovely refined woman of North Italian decent! Most favorites are listed above. A meal for every season of the year ! Please refer to Allreceipes on the Internet...under Dennis Valentine Cooking fluffy rice !