I left some green beans and mashed potatoes on that track the first week, I want to tell you. It was hard. Really hard.

My friend said to me, You know what I like? Mashed potatoes. I was like, Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause.

The only thing hard has been to eat. It's been a lot of eggs, milkshakes and mashed potatoes. Nothing that's tough to chew on.

If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family.

I liked gravy poured on top of a big glob of mashed potatoes, I liked biscuits a lot, and a lot of them. I liked going to the state fair and having a fried Twinkie. They were my choices. They were bad choices.

I'm getting crushed for eating green beans out of a can and not fresh beans. But I'm going to tell you something: You can't go wrong with Mama's beans -- out of a can or fresh. They're good, all slathered in bacon grease ...