My cooking usually runs pretty simple with not a lot of exotic ingredients but I try to make each dish as tasty as possible. One of my favorite things to do is to invite guests over for dinner and ask them if they can guess "the secret ingredient" in a dish. I did this with my peach pie recipe this past summer when I added the secret ingredient, cayenne pepper. We served that at two different times with guests here and played that "secret ingredient" game while we enjoyed our dessert. People are intrigued by it. It's a fun bit of entertainment while you savour a new dish. This month, we played it three times when I made my pumpkin flan recipe for guests who came over for dinner. After such a busy month of October with baseball, our November has been very low-key so we decided to get caught up with friends and ended up having four little dinner parties serving a nice, fall meal at each one. I love fall food anyway after barbec...