Food Meme

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What's the last thing you ate?
Vietnamese noodle salad with veggies and chicken.

What's your favourite cheese?
Asiago.

What's your favourite fish?
Lobster & crab, but those are a crustaceans, so, swordfish, line-caught wild Pacific salmon, or ono

What's your favourite fruit?
Right now, grapefruit

When, if ever, did you start liking olives?
When I moved to Calif.

When, if ever, did you start liking beer?
When I discovered raspberry ale, which I no longer like actually.

When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish?
I’ve always loved it.

What was the best thing your mum/dad/guardian used to make?
Well, they grew all our veggies, so I’d have to say corn just picked, asparagus just cut, tomatoes warm & ripe off the vine, and peaches just picked were the best. The homegrown rhubarb, bush beans, carrots, zucchini, Concord grapes, peppers, lettuce, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries (wild from the hills nearby) were all really good. I'm sure I'm forgetting something, too.

What's the native specialty of your home town?
I have no idea! Italian food, I guess, in my current home town. Growing up? dunno. Venison, I supppose, or black angus or game birds.

What's your comfort food?
crackers and cheese or sourdough and cheese

What's your favorite type of chocolate?
The darker the chocolate, the better

How do you like your steak?
Not.

How do you like your burger?
Grilled ahi tuna with wasabi aoli

How do you like your eggs?
Scrambled with cheese & crumbled fakin’ bacon, dusted with dill

How do you like your potatoes?
Baked sweet potatoes

How do you take your coffee?
single large decaf lattes with no foam, only

How do you take your tea?
Decaf Earl Grey, ginger/lemon, or whatever herbal’s available

What's your favourite mug?
Coffee People insulated mugs from Portland, OR

What's your biscuit or cookie of choice?
Hazelnut Loakers, or almond biscotti with chocolate

What's your ideal breakfast?
Weekend: scrambled eggs, tea. Maybe toast, too.
Weekday: a grapefruit, peeled; or Fiber One, if I ever get to the grocery store again in this lifetime

What's your ideal sandwich?
Turkey pastrami Reuben from Max’s Diner, hold the Russian dressing

What's your ideal pizza (topping and base)?
Thin crust with tomato sauce, topped with spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, then ½ topped with feta cheese and the other ½ topped with mozzarella cheese. Or, whatever the Cheese Board or Arizmendi is serving

What's your ideal pie (sweet or savory)?
Mud pie

What's your ideal salad?
Caesar topped with grilled fish

What food do you always like to have in the fridge?
I have lots of condiments and nuts stored in there.

What food do you always like to have in the freezer?
Ice

What food do you always like to have in the cupboard?
Dehydrated miso, nuts, waffle mix, spices, oil, vinegar

What spices can you not live without?
Dill, salt

What sauces can you not live without?
Chocolate

Where do you buy most of your food?
Take out from the community college cafeteria/chef training program a block away from work

How often do you go food shopping?
Rarely. I haven't been in a couple of weeks.

What's the most you've spent on a single food item?
Tequila. Or probably an expensive cake to take to a dinner party.

What's the most expensive piece of kitchen equipment you own (excluding 'white goods')?
The good knife, or maybe the blender/food processor combo.

What's the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen?
Knife sharpener, 5 years ago. Tea towels, a few weeks ago.

What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without?
Knife

How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients?
4-10 times a month? (assuming cutting Romaine for a salad counts)

What's the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients?
Scrambled eggs last weekend

What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig and poultry?
Shellfish, fish, bivalves, lamb, jellyfish, fish eggs, eel, ostrich, venison.
I haven’t eaten a mammal since 1983 or 1984, though.

What's the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor?
Not sure

What's the last time you ate something you'd picked in the wild?
Last fall – apples, blackberries

Place in order of preference (greatest to least):
Thai, sushi, Indian, Chinese, Italian, French

Place in order of preference:
Tequila, Light Rum, Dark Rum, Brandy. I’ll have vodka or gin in mixed drinks. Forget whisky.

Place in order of preference:
Ginger, Lime, Mint, Basil, Garlic, Aniseed, Caramel

Place in order of preference:
Orange, cherry (fresh only), banana, apple, strawberry, watermelon, pineapple

Place in order of preference:
Food, the Internet, sex, music and the heck with the rest (sports, fashion)

Bread and spread:
Fresh local sourdough (Cheese Board or Arizmendi’s if possible) with a hunk of cheese

What's your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order?
I don’t eat at fast food restaurants. Take out? Laney College, Trader Joe’s, Good Earth or Whole Foods. Oh wait, I had an ostrich-burger at Murder Burger in Davis once.

Pick a city. What are the three best dining experiences you've had in that city?
Berkeley:
Downtown
Cambodiana
Chinese Vegi Food
(and I’ve been to Chez Panisse many times, too; sacrilege!! I’m too cheap to relax and enjoy it)

or San Francisco:
Aqua
Boulevard
Silks
Greens

What's your choice of tipple at the end of a long day?
lately, water; but often an IPA or Reisling

What's the next thing you'll eat?
Chocolate, probably, or more of my salmon Caesar