Menu/Meal Meme

I was tagged by The Headmistress at The Common Room. I hate cooking, but these things are always fun, so I'm playing anyway. :)

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

We probably eat 20 meals at home (mostly self-serve, rushed, or quick and easy) and we're a family of six.

2. How many cookbooks do you own?

Maybe a dozen.

3. How often do you refer to a cookbook each week?

Not even every week

4. Do you collect recipes from other sources? If so, what are some of your favorite sources (relaties, friends, magazines, advertisements, packages, the internet, etc)

I have a recipe collection, but when I decide to make something I've never made before, I always look online for a recipe anyway.

5. How do you store those recipes?

I've started keeping recipes that I plan to use regularly in a file on my hard drive.

6. When you cook, do you follow the recipe pretty closely, or do you use recipes primarily to give you ideas?

I have to follow it pretty closely.

7. Is there a particular ethnic style or flavor that predominates in your cooking? If so, what is it?

My kids seem to like basic stuff that kids like, but I prefer Thai; I've been buying easy Thai meals recently.

8. What's your favorite kitchen task related to meal planning and preparation? (eating the finished product does not count)

Cleaning up and getting out of the kitchen.

9. What's your least favorite part?

Deciding what to have for dinner, and rinsing and chopping lettuce.

10. Do you plan menus before you shop?

Yes, usually.

11. What are your three favorite kitchen tools or appliances?

Microwave, blender (for green smoothies), can opener that doesn't leave sharp edges

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 COOK! Or a Vitamix super-blender.

13. Since money and space probably are objects, what are you most likely to buy next?

I already bought it - it's a coffee grinder for grinding flax seeds and nuts.

14. Do you have a separate freezer for storage?

No.

15. Grocery shop alone or with others?

Dh usually buys groceries on his way home from work.

16. How many meatless main dish meals do you fix in a week?

Most are meatless.

17. If you have a decorating theme in your kitchen, what is it? Favorite kitchen colors?

No theme (unless efficiency is a theme?) Colors - I like yellow and white, bright and clean and sunshiny.

18. What's the first thing you ever learned to cook, and how old were you?

I don't remember, maybe a cake mix?

19. How did you learn to cook?

I remember making scrambled eggs a lot. I never could get them perfect, and it probably soured me early on cooking.

20. Tag two other people to play.

Miss Roxie
Beth