I am a professional photographer and I've been married to my husband for 30 years...amazing to us both! "Winter Food" : stews, roasts, soups. Anything Italian (especially lasagne), Mexican, and Mediterranean dishes, some Polish recipes. I love exotic spices. Down home cooking. Since we live in a temperate climate, it is quite cold in the winter, so we need filling, warming foods to get us through the long winters here and supply energy for outside activities. When people ask me for recipes-which is difficult for more as I am a "none-measurement" type cook; you know, a pinch of that, a "palmful" of this, eyeball the amount, fill to cover, etc. Trying to bake bread...I once followed a recipe (at high altitude) for a wonderful whole wheat bread with sunflower seeds. It smelled wonderful and came out 2 inches high and must have weighed 10 lbs! My mom is the baker in the family. She communes with the little "yeasties"!