The Latest Tag – The Kitchen Meme

Loni from Journaling Through the Valley tagged me with a Kitchen Meme and I thought – hey, why not! Some more stuff about me you really didn’t want to know – right :grin:! But here I go anyway…

1. How many meals does most of your family eat at home each week? How many are in your family? We eat 14 meals at home (don’t go out much anymore – but that is a different story – lol). 3 people in our family.
2. How many cookbooks do you own? 8, one subscription (Rachael Ray of course) and several print-outs from foodnetwork.com
3. How often do you refer to a cookbook each week? It depends if I want to try something new; maybe once or twice a week.
4. Do you collect recipes from other sources? As I mentioned above – on-line.
5. How do you store those recipes? Do I really have to tell; I just throw them in my kitchen drawer.
6. When you cook, do you follow the recipe pretty closely, or do you use recipes primarily to give you ideas? The first time I usually cook exactly by the recipe, after that no guarantee; I might take out some things we didn’t care for, but that is very rare. After I have done the recipe several times, I cook the meal without the recipe.
7. Is there a particular ethnic style or flavor that predominates in your cooking? Believe it or not – Italian…and you thought it was German – haha.
8. What’s your favorite kitchen task related to meal planning and preparation? The arranging of the plate when I finished the cooking process. I like to make it look pretty.
9. What’s your least favorite part? I don’t like cleaning the pans.
10. Do you plan menus before you shop? I usually don’t even plan my meals until the day, than just stop at the store to pick-up what I need for dinner.
11. What are your three favorite kitchen tools or appliances? Dishwasher, Food Processor, Pots & Pans.
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? I use to have a great stove/convection oven in Germany. I really would like one again.
13. Since money and space probably are objects, what are you most likely to buy next? Actually we would need to tear out the entire kitchen (it is falling apart)! I would buy all new appliances, including a new fridge, dishwasher and stove/oven.
14. Do you have a separate freezer for storage? Not anymore – had one in Germany though.
15. Grocery shop alone or with others? With my Sweetheart.
16. How many meatless main dish meals do you fix in a week? 0. My guys won’t eat meals without meat. We just talked about it last night. I grew up eating 2-4 meals without meat.
17. If you have a decorating theme in your kitchen, what is it? Favorite kitchen colors? We don’t have a theme, but I would like to. Just haven’t had the funds to decorate the kitchen how I would like to. The colors for the future kitchen – light orange.
18. What’s the first thing you ever learned to cook, and how old were you? Oh dear, I really don’t remember. Maybe our family recipe potato salad? Not sure how old I was.
19. How did you learn to cook? My mom taught me.
20. Tag two other people to play. I am not tagging this time, because I know that some of my blogging buddies have done this one already, and I really don’t like rejection (one of my weak spots – lol). If you do play along though, please leave me a comment, so I can check out your answers.