My friend in The Common Room has gotten inventive and started her own Monday meme. It is about our kitchen. Most of my day is spent here since my family room, kitchen and breakfast room are pretty much all one big room with half wall dividing the family room and the kitchen.
1. How many meals does most of your family eat at home each week? HOw many are in your family?
There are 5 people in our family and we eat 18 meals at home, Honey eats out 2-3 days and buys 2-3 days.
2. How many cookbooks do you own?
Lots and Lots and Lots, my favorite is the Fort Worth Women's Club Cookbook, it is full of the receipes I ate at home and in friend's houses. It has 8 different ways to make Chicken Spaghetti and 10 Chilli receipes. There are ones for different ways to make summer veggies.
3. How often do you refer to a cookbook each week?
Daily, I love cookbooks.
4. Do you collect recipes from other sources? If so, what are some of your favorite sources (relaties, friends, magazines, advertisements, packages, the internet, etc)
Favorite receipes are from friends and my mother and grandmother.
5. How do you store those recipes?
4x5 cards in a box and 3x5 in a picture album with clear pages
6. When you cook, do you follow the recipe pretty closely, or do you use recipes primarily to give you ideas?
depends, I look for ingredients and then adapt it for what I have on hand.
7. Is there a particular ethnic style or flavor that predominates in your cooking? If so, what is it?
Texan (yes this is a style), TexMex,. New Mexican, Vietnamese
8. What's your favorite kitchen task related to meal planning and preparation? (eating the finished product does not count)
I like the menu planning, choosing recipes, consulting the sales papers for deals, and making my shopping lists. (hehehe, I copied)
9. What's your least favorite part?
grating cheese
10. Do you plan menus before you shop?
No, I keep a stocked pantry and then can cook according to what my whim is that day..
11. What are your three favorite kitchen tools or appliances?
cutting board, dishwasher, non-stick saute pan
12. If you could buy one new thing for your kitchen, money was no object, and space not an issue, what would you most like to have?
Industrial refrigerator.
13. Since money and space probably are objects, what are you most likely to buy next?
a roll of foil.
14. Do you have a separate freezer for storage?
no, but I would like to have one
15. Grocery shop alone or with others?
Both, sometimes I take the boys but only if I want the bill to be about $15 more, I sometimes go at night after they have gone to bed and take my time reading labels, magazines and looking at produce.
16. How many meatless main dish meals do you fix in a week?
None, we are definitely carnivoires
17. If you have a decorating theme in your kitchen, what is it? Favorite kitchen colors?
My kitchen is all white so I just have some blue accents around
18. What's the first thing you ever learned to cook, and how old were you?
scrambled eggs, I don't know.
19. How did you learn to cook?
My mom was a homemaking teacher who was at home with us. She always welcomed us into the kitchen to help her. My grandmother and her sisters were also good cooks. I always loved being in the kitchen and helping. My grandmother taught me to cook FOrgotten Cookies one summer and I still have the card where she had me copy her receipe card. I love the ones my mom kept that tell where she got them. I have inherited (actually I took them from my dad's house and ) my mom's receipes.
20. Tag two other people to play.
I am forced to clarify something Athena said. When she wrote "[Mother] always welcomed us into the kitchen to help her," she failed to mention that she is referring to herself and the mouse in her pocket. I, the younger sister, was frequently told that the best way for me to help was to stay out of the way. As a result, I can follow simple recipes and heat up pot pies in the oven.
For many years I was also a poor graduate student who couldn't afford a microwave. As a result, I make the world's greatest stove-top pop corn, and, I created the greatest dish in the world: Velveeta Shells and Cheese with tuna and Ranch Style Beans!!!
Hard to believe I'm still single, ain't it?
Posted by: elisabeth | February 20, 2006 at 07:24 PM
Okay, Athena. Too funny. As I was reading this, I thought, "Oh no a list. Will people be tagged? Surely not me!" And then there it was! Thanks. I posted my list but I'm afraid I don't have many to tag. I did tag 2 but I'm not sure they visit my blog all that often but I tried! :o)
Posted by: Mommy22Ss | February 21, 2006 at 11:48 AM
You have no idea how happy your 'lots and lots' of cookbooks makes me.=)
Posted by: deputyheadmistress | February 22, 2006 at 01:52 PM