What's the secret to a good marriage? Love, laughter and understanding and lots of home cooked meals. Ina's husband Jeffrey is back to work, back to Yale for the week and she's preparing a delicious food that will travel well and still taste good when it reaches Connecticut such as butternut squash and apple soup and sesame chicken salad. All this and a romantic breakfast of banana sour cream pancakes with maple syrup and crispy bacon before he leaves – it guarantees that Jeffrey will return home as quickly as possible.

This is the type of winter food that makes you feel cozy – a comforting home cooked dinner at it's very best. Roast loin of pork with fennel, and sautéed cabbage, followed by rum raisin pudding. This is real come-in-from-the-cold fireside food.

Chocolate has always been a real menu pleaser. Ina pulls out all her favorite chocolate recipe moments. Chocolate white chocolate chunk cookies, Truffles, Tiramisu, chocolate brownies and for the more health conscious chocolate dipped strawberries.