Goblin

Best meal I ever ate:

Too many to list.

My current drink of choice:

Veuve Cliquot but I'll drink any decent champagne with pleasure!

I really wish I could:

Dare to cook without a recipe

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Currently, anything make-ahead but still delicious and pretty. Lately, I've gotten fixated on clay-cookery for entertaining-- love setting the dish up ahead and then a long slow simmering in interesting pots!

My favorite comfort food:

Chili; scalloped potatoes au gratin; baked potatoes with broccoli-cheese sauce; sweet-potato fries (is there a theme here?)

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Local? The Dolphin in Barnstable; The Marsh Side in Dennis; Sesuit Cafe in Dennis; Cooke's Seafood in Hyannis; Scargo Cafe in Dennis;

My most tattered cookbooks:

Julia, always Julia; the America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, the new Cooks Illustrated Cookbook; and whatever it the Cook book of the Month on Chowhound!; The Splendid Table, by Lynn Rossetto-Kasper