I love to cook in my cast iron dutch ovens. I have several sizes from 1qt to 8qt right now and plan on getting a 20qt sometime soon, the big one will be for turkeys, bread, pizza, or whatever big stuff I want. One of my favorites is to cook up some chili or stew in one of the larger ones and bake some cornbread in one of the smaller ones for a tasty meal.I haven't tried many deserts but the cobler mentioned earlier sounds easy and would be good with some home made ice cream. I may have to try that out.