Tuesday, February 21, 2006 -
Kitchen-tag

... Posted in Fun stuff

I was tagged by coffeemama so here goes....

1. How many meals does most of your family eat at home each week? How many are in your family?

21 meals, 7 people.

2. How many cookbooks do you own?
I have no idea. There's a small stack in the basement I rarely use but want to save in case the kids want them, and there are maybe 10 in the kitchen cupboard. One of which, I have to tell about-- it's a big black book, kinda like the one I mention in question #5, but bigger. It was my grandmother's, and besides recipes, it contains such information as "Randall went away Aug 23 '52" (my grandfather worked on the Imperial Oil boats), similar info for my uncles, and there's a recipe for After Dinner Mints in my mom's grade 5 handwriting. Lots and lots of recipes cut out of old magazines, and packages, and few of the written ones contain much more than the ingredients. The recipe in there for Hot Milk Cake is especially good.

3. How often do you refer to a cookbook each week?
Maybe once or twice... usually if I'm baking.

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)
I get some from packages, some from the internet (I'm with mamasquirrel on this one- Hillbilly Housewife is an amazing wealth of recipes for the economically impaired!!!), but mainly from friends or relatives who have fed me something I want more of.

5. How do you store those recipes?
I either write them on index cards, and put them in this little ugly green (70's) card holder thingy, or I write them in my black book (8"x10" hardcover book I once was supposed to use as a Sociology journal, but found a better use for).

6. When you cook, do you follow the recipe pretty closely, or do you use recipes primarily to give you ideas?
Depends on the recipe. I generally substitute what's on hand, and leave out what we can't eat.

7. Is there a particular ethnic style or flavor that predominates in your cooking? If so, what is it?
How about "Maritime Basic"... lol... although Asian (sweet n' sour?) and Italian (spaghetti sauce?). Most meals are painfully plain (meat, potatoes or rice, and some other vegetable).

8. What's your favorite kitchen task related to meal planning and preparation? (eating the finished product does not count)
Hmm... snacking on the ingredients while you're putting it together....lol

9. What's your least favorite part?
Peeling.

10. Do you plan menus before you shop?
Rarely. Even then, it's only, "I want lasagne this week, so I better get what I need." I generally make the same types of meals, so I just buy the stuff I normally use and plan meals around that.

11. What are your three favorite kitchen tools or appliances?
Crock-pot, HUGE measuring cup/ mixing bowl, and any knife or peeler that a leftie can use (trust me, they are not all equal).

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?
One of those pot rack things that hang from the ceiling, with a bunch of good quality pots, pans, and utensils included!!!

13. Since money and space probably are objects, what are you most likely to buy next?
Tea towels. Maybe some cup hooks.

14. Do you have a separate freezer for storage?
We have two freezers. A big one we bought new several years ago, and a smaller (older) one we were given by some friends who were moving. When we get our side of beef, they're both full- one with beef, the other with stuff like bread, fries, vegetables, ice cream... usual freezer stuff. 

15. Grocery shop alone or with others?
Usually with hubby. I actually HATE shopping by myself.

16. How many meatless main dish meals do you fix in a week?
Maybe 3 or 4... per year. They aren't very popular in this house. Assuming this question means supper dishes. Dinner and breakfast, that's another story.

17. If you have a decorating theme in your kitchen, what is it? Favorite kitchen colors?
My theme is rather eclectic. I like stuff that reminds me of fall. I like blues, greens, and browns for a kitchen, but, alas, we rent and haven't painted anything. The entire house is a boring, monotonous, beige. Except where the 10 layers of paint have partly peeled off, and then there's glimpses of an ugly lime green, and an uglier yellow. Some yellows are pretty-- not this one.

18. What's the first thing you ever learned to cook, and how old were you?
Scrambled eggs. I think I was 11.

19. How did you learn to cook?
~"MOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!! How do you do this???????" 

~"Package instructions: empty into large casserole...." LOL

~recipe books with detailed instructions

~After I got married, I learned from my m-i-l how to make bread, and a few other indispensible recipes.. like Million Dollar Icing!

20. Tag two other people to play.
I tag..... Laurabc and Penelope !!!

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