Dear Folks, My niece Deb called me from her 18-wheeler truck tonight. She was somewhere in Missouri and I don't know if she was on her way back home or whether she had some place else to pick up a load or deliver a load. It's been some time since we had a chat and tonight we had a real long one. She let me know what's been happening to her and I let her know what I've been doing. She told me that she was in the process of putting together a cookbook. Well that didn't surprise me at all especially since she's already put together a marvelous one for her kids and friends. However, this one will be very different and very unique. It will be a cookbook of recipes for truck drivers! She told me that she had recently purchase a small oven that she could plug into her truck. It's about the size of a bread box. She said that she's been cooking up the most delicious dinners in it. Everything from lasagna to spare ribs with barbeque sauce to chicken cordon blue. She said that she had a problem with the chicken cordon blue in that it requires a toothpick to hold together the chicken wrapped around ham and cheese. But she solved the problem by going into her truck supplies and pulling out some sort of wire that's commonly used by truckers. She stuck the wire into the rolled up chicken and then cut the long end off with a sharp knife. She also said that when a recipe calls for a certain measurement such as 1/2 cup, she's putting it in truckers' language such as fill up your coffee mug half way. She's been cooking up dishes by putting them into a throw-away aluminum bread loaf pan and covering it up with another overturned bread loaf pan. From long experience, Deb has known that truckers get awfully tired of fast foods at truck stops and knows that a number of them have culinary skills they can't use on the road. Therefore, she's calling to their attention the small oven and will be giving them recipes they can cook up themselves while they're on the road. So if you know of any long-distance truckers who are longing for home cooked meals that they can prepare themselves, just let me know and I'll pass the word on to Deb. Now is that a unique cook book or what? vee