My best friend Tim’s mom tagged me to play this game.
We don't hate cooking here; we find it fun and entertaining. So I will do the best to play the game. I have addressed some of the answer as 'we' ~ meaning Madam B and myself ~ as we cook together and separately. She has become someone, if you like good food, i.e. nutritious good food cooked for you with love, than you want her as your chef.
1. How many meals does most of your family eat at home each week? How many are in your family?
We probably eat 30 meals or more at home weekly ~ actually, we never eat out, might we order out on occasion, but we're not big on actually going to a place and listening to people make a lot of stranger noise while we dine, nothing personal, we are just reclusive people.. We plan and cook things everyone likes. Right now we are a family of 3 here, but our boys like us to cook when we visit them, but ordering out and our footing the bill is good for them, also..
2. How many cookbooks do you own?
Maybe a dozen or more. Falls under the number ALOT. We are most fond of cookbooks with lovely pictures to look at. We're part visual leaner.
3. How often do you refer to a cookbook each week?
We look at them often for recreation, creation appreciation, and ideas.
4. Do you collect recipes from other sources? If so, what are some of your favorite sources (relatives, friends, magazines, advertisements, packages, the internet, etc)
We prefer information on cooking ideas with photos these days. We use our cookbooks, and the Internet, and the television (our cooking channel is 50) has the shows on the Internet, which is very handy. But we still check out magazines, and food packages for extra ideas, read blogs, listen to suggestions, the ear is always open. We know key buzzwords now for the things that interest us.
5. How do you store those recipes?
In Madam B's folder and on line. I'd like to have the ones she's discovered this year put in a nice (water proof) binder. Left around the house somewhere. And we have one drawer, if all else fails, where recipes go.
6. When you cook, do you follow the recipe pretty closely, or do you use recipes primarily to give you ideas?
We follow it closely the first time. We do read it over before starting to get the idea of the most efficient way to work. After the meal is cooked, we critique it for changes should it need any for next time.
7. Is there a particular ethnic style or flavor that predominates in your cooking? If so, what is it?
We try things that sound good, and have good foods as ingredients and fiber and spinach and blueberries and pecans, oh my, in the recipes! LOL.
8. What's your favorite kitchen task related to meal planning and preparation? (Eating the finished product does not count)
The prep work. Chopping and dicing, sautéing all the ingredients together in the pan, adding the spices, when you smell and see the beginning, it's a unique experience.
Even if you feel that you will never make a recipe again, you have been enlightened. You have graduated to a new level of knowledge. Research, planning, gathering, and actually preparing the meal from it’s beginning to end in a very personal and enriching experience...
9. What's your least favorite part?
Clean up?
10. Do you plan menus before you shop?
Yes, usually. It's the most logical and successful way to do it.
11. What are your three favorite kitchen tools or appliances?
Whisker, beater, perfect measuring utensils for Madam B, and mine would be the food processor...and I would add, it is nice to work with attractive or sentimental tools. Tools are very important.
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?
A total kitchen makeover!!! Oh so many things!!!
13. Since money and space probably are objects, what are you most likely to buy next?
Therapy sessions. (hahahaha) ~ only gee, only one?
14. Do you have a separate freezer for storage?
No.
15. Grocery shop alone or with others?
When the others won't come, I go alone.
16. How many meatless main dish meals do you fix in a week?
Most are meatless. But we use fish and chicken. But prefer the vegetarian fare for ourselves.
17. If you have a decorating theme in your kitchen, what is it? Favorite kitchen colors?
Got a bit of a Tuscany thing going in thought
18. What's the first thing you ever learned to cook, and how old were you?
Using an actual heating element? Scrambled eggs and spaghetti. I was 17.
19. How did you learn to cook?
I had a basic Betty Crocker Cook Book, but even with that, I made some perfectly horrible first meals. Roast so tough you could play basketball with them….oh those days…
20. Tag two other people to play.
Ummm, how does a new blogger tag people??
So here's a try ~ maybe they will see it!
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