Tagged
I've been tagged by jill for my very first meme game. It's called "The Cook Next Door".
1) What is your first memory of baking/cooking on your own?
I tried to make lemon cookies one summer while no one was home. Lemon cookies used to be one of my favorite treats--soft and lemony, with a sweet sugar coating. However, I mistook my mother's recipe and poured the 2 cups of powdered sugar (which was supposed to be reserved for rolling the cookies in) right into the cookie batter. My family laughed for days at the rock-hard "lemon candy" I had made instead.
2) Who had the most influence on your cooking?
Mark (with Mom as a close second). While I still rely on some basic favorites from my mother's repetoire of dishes, Mark has introduced me to all the more exotic flavors and dishes. Mark is a very good cook.
3) Do you have an old photo as "evidence" of an early exposure to the culinary world, and would you like to share it?
I don't have any of my baby or child-hood pictures and I can't particularly think of one that exists either. Oh well.
4) Mageiricophobia - do you suffer from any cooking phobia, a dish that makes your palms sweat?
I wouldn't say I have any cooking phobias. However, I often completely lose my appetite after handling raw meat. The italian sausage, for instance, that I squeezed out of its skin to brown and then add to a pasta sauce, was difficult to eat.
5) What would be your most valued or used kitchen gadgets and/or what was the biggest letdown?
Coolest kitchen gadget--salad shooter (but because it's difficult to clean, I dont' bother with it that often). Biggest let down--ice cream maker, waffle iron, and all the many other crazy kitchen gadgets that we've used once or never while they crowd our cabinets.
6) Name some funny or weird food combinations/dishes you really like - and probably no one else!
Some people seem to think my "Banana Boats" are weird: spread peanut butter on a slice of bread, wrap bread around a peeled banana, enjoy.
7) What are the three eatables or dishes you simply don't want to live without?
Ice cream, pasta (spaghetti w/ red sauce), bacon cheeseburgers, green beans (only three!?), corn, peanut butter!!!
8) Your favorite ice cream...
Mint and Chip (tried and true)
9) You will probably never eat...
a fish head (Mark did in southeast Asia!)
10) Your own signature dish...
Sandwiches--that may sound silly, but let me tell you, I can make a mean lunch :)
Unlike Jill, I very much enjoy prepping food (meaning cutting things up with a big knife) and a lot of times that is what lunch is all about.
11) You were tagged by...
jill
12) Three people you'd like to pass this meme on to...
Lisa, Mom, Inez
1) What is your first memory of baking/cooking on your own?
I tried to make lemon cookies one summer while no one was home. Lemon cookies used to be one of my favorite treats--soft and lemony, with a sweet sugar coating. However, I mistook my mother's recipe and poured the 2 cups of powdered sugar (which was supposed to be reserved for rolling the cookies in) right into the cookie batter. My family laughed for days at the rock-hard "lemon candy" I had made instead.
2) Who had the most influence on your cooking?
Mark (with Mom as a close second). While I still rely on some basic favorites from my mother's repetoire of dishes, Mark has introduced me to all the more exotic flavors and dishes. Mark is a very good cook.
3) Do you have an old photo as "evidence" of an early exposure to the culinary world, and would you like to share it?
I don't have any of my baby or child-hood pictures and I can't particularly think of one that exists either. Oh well.
4) Mageiricophobia - do you suffer from any cooking phobia, a dish that makes your palms sweat?
I wouldn't say I have any cooking phobias. However, I often completely lose my appetite after handling raw meat. The italian sausage, for instance, that I squeezed out of its skin to brown and then add to a pasta sauce, was difficult to eat.
5) What would be your most valued or used kitchen gadgets and/or what was the biggest letdown?
Coolest kitchen gadget--salad shooter (but because it's difficult to clean, I dont' bother with it that often). Biggest let down--ice cream maker, waffle iron, and all the many other crazy kitchen gadgets that we've used once or never while they crowd our cabinets.
6) Name some funny or weird food combinations/dishes you really like - and probably no one else!
Some people seem to think my "Banana Boats" are weird: spread peanut butter on a slice of bread, wrap bread around a peeled banana, enjoy.
7) What are the three eatables or dishes you simply don't want to live without?
Ice cream, pasta (spaghetti w/ red sauce), bacon cheeseburgers, green beans (only three!?), corn, peanut butter!!!
8) Your favorite ice cream...
Mint and Chip (tried and true)
9) You will probably never eat...
a fish head (Mark did in southeast Asia!)
10) Your own signature dish...
Sandwiches--that may sound silly, but let me tell you, I can make a mean lunch :)
Unlike Jill, I very much enjoy prepping food (meaning cutting things up with a big knife) and a lot of times that is what lunch is all about.
11) You were tagged by...
jill
12) Three people you'd like to pass this meme on to...
Lisa, Mom, Inez
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