jlh | Food quiz!

Sorry for that silly public wibble. The rest of the weekend was much better, for my soul if not my love life.

And now, that food quiz from

anw
01. What's the last thing you ate? Cream of wheat and scrambled eggs.
02. What's your favourite cheese? Anything triple creme, especially blue.
03. What's your favourite fish? Sea bass, or red snapper
04. What's your favourite fruit? Rasperries
05. When, if ever, did you start liking olives? When I was around 20
06. When, if ever, did you start liking beer? When I was around 22 and discovered Yueng-Ling (or, that there was more to life than lager and porter)
07. When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish? Birth. The first food I remember eating is a steamed clam and I must have been around 2 1/2.
08. What was the best thing your mum/dad/guardian used to make? Apple pie.
09. What's the native speciality of your home town? You want me to say lobster, but actually it's this sandwich called an Italian, that is made on bread that is soft like a hero but narrow like a baguette. On it they put two thin slices of ham, one of provolone, then chopped onions, very sour pickles, sliced tomato, sliced green bell pepper, and a couple of slices of olive. It's dressed with oil, salt and pepper, and it's excellent for a picnic. The best ones are from Amato's on India street in downtown Portland, and it's the first thing I eat when I go home to Maine.
10. What's your comfort food? In summer, toasted tomato sandwiches. In winter, cream of wheat.
11. What's your favourite type of chocolate? Milk, I suppose. Or semi-sweet.
12. How do you like your steak? Medium rare
13. How do you like your burger? Medium rare
14. How do you like your eggs? Over easy
15. How do you like your potatoes? Baked, with just salt, or as french fries
16. How do you take your coffee? I don't care for coffee
17. How do you take your tea? Good tea, black. Bad tea, milk and sugar. Chai, which I'm obsessed with at present, with steamed soy.
18. What's your favourite mug? A Fryeburg Fair mug (that's the local agricultural fair)
19. What's your biscuit or cookie of choice? Peanut Butter
20. What's your ideal breakfast? Eggs Benedict
21. What's your ideal sandwich? The aforementioned Italian.
22. What's your ideal pizza (topping and base)? Regular New York crust with extra sauce, fresh garlic, and broccoli. Or, pepperoni and mushroom, but only if the mushrooms are fresh and not canned.
23. What's your ideal pie (sweet or savoury)? Raspberry Rhubarb. I have it most years instead of cake on my birthday.
24. What's your ideal salad? Tomato and cucumber, with perhaps some goat cheese and a balsamic vinaigrette.
25. What food do you always like to have in the fridge? I like to have a lot of beverages on hand, and also fruit leather
26. What food do you always like to have in the freezer? Chicken stock
27. What food do you always like to have in the cupboard? Canned tomatoes
28. What spices can you not live without? All of them, really. Um, nutmeg, basil, cinnamon, cayenne, but I'm sure there's more.
29. What sauces can you not live without? Well, most sauces are made, like bechamel, right? Or do you mean condiments? If the latter, then ketchup, soy sauce, Worcestershire, horseradish, dijon, and Tobasco
30. Where do you buy most of your food? The green market on my street, and a NY grocery delivery service called Fresh Direct
31. How often do you go food shopping? Every other week or so
32. What's the most you've spent on a single food item? I think I spent US$30 on a beef tenderloin once.
33. What's the most expensive piece of kitchen equipment you own (excluding 'white goods')? I have a cappucino machine that was probably about $40 but was a gift from a company I was working for at the time. If it weren't such a small apartment, I'd likely have a KitchenAid, though.
34. What's the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen? An electric kettle.
35. What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without? The mini prep food processor, and the stick blender
36. How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients? Well, I usually cook at once and eat off it for a week, so I would say I get four or five meals from two cooking sessions a week
37. What's the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients? Chicken and pasta
38. What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig and poultry? Caribou, venison, bear, rabbit--can you tell my family hunts?
39. What's the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor? Last week, maybe?
40. What's the last time you ate something you'd picked in the wild? Not in forever, likely since I was a child.
41. Place in order of preference: Mexican, Sushi, Indian, Italian, French, Chinese, Thai.
42. Place in order of preference: Tequila, Gin, Vodka, Whisky, Light Rum, Dark Rum, Brandy.
43. Place in order of preference: Lime, Garlic, Mint, Caramel, Basil, Ginger, Aniseed.
44. Place in order of preference: Cherry, Strawberry, Banana, Orange, Watermelon, Apple, Pineapple.
45. Place in order of preference: Movies, Music, Sex, Food, Fashion, The Internet, Sport.
46. Bread and spread: What do you fancy? Does pita and babaganooj count?
47. What's your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order? Ranch 1 is a chain of chicken places, and I get chicken fingers from there.
48. Pick a city. What are the three best dining experiences you've had in that city? You know, my best dining experiences have always been cooking with friends, because it's a whole togetherness event sort of thing. When I think of great dining experiences I don't tend to think of restaurants. So it would be, perhaps, eating lobsters with my friends on my 30th birthday up at my parent's house in Maine, or really that entire weekend where I clued them all into Jordan's red hot dogs; eating cajun shrimp-stuffed peppers at my friend Steve's apartment in Philly with a crowd of grad school friends; or any one of a thousand summer days eating Italian sandwiches on my father's sailboat in the middle of Casco Bay.
49. What's your choice of tipple at the end of a long day? A good margarita.
50. What's the next thing you'll eat? Lunch will very likely be a salad.

Saw the National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt this weekend, and it was great as you would expect. Did not see any films. Will see Matrix Wednesday, w00t!