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[pfloyd]

01. What's the last thing you ate?
Oatmeal with lots of brown sugar and a bit of milk, toasted potato bread

02. What's your favourite cheese?
Smoked gouda, monterey jack, smoked provolone

03. What's your favourite fish?
Salmon and tuna... not much of a fish eater really...

04. What's your favourite fruit?
Apples and bananas (start singing that song right now...)

05. When, if ever, did you start liking olives?
Never, don't care for 'em

06. When, if ever, did you start liking beer?
21st birthday, treated myself to a Bass...

07. When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish?
4th grade, I think, when someone brought in a lobster for us to try...

08. What was the best thing your mum/dad/guardian used to make?
Mom's beef stew and chicken casserole... comfort food that I've learned to make on my own...

09. What's the native specialty of your home town?
What is Worcester's native specialty???

10. What's your comfort food?
Gods, there's lots... homemade beef stew, chicken casserole, grilled cheese (usually with some sort of meat in there) sandwiches with chicken noodle soup...

11. What's your favourite type of chocolate?
Dark, or anything that's from Britain (particularly their Cadbury's)

12. How do you like your steak?
Medium rare... sometimes marinated before grilling...

13. How do you like your burger?
Medium to medium rare, with cheese and bacon...

14. How do you like your eggs?
I'll take 'em either friend (runny yolks) or scrambled (still just a touch runny, I don't like 'em dry)

15. How do you like your potatoes?
Mashed, fried, broiled

16. How do you take your coffee?
Can't stand the stuff, actually...

17. How do you take your tea?
Lots of sugar. Typically I drink Celestial Seasoning's Mandarin Orange Spice or Lemon Zinger...

18. What's your favourite mug?
Don't have a favorite one...

19. What's your biscuit or cookie of choice?
Mom's homemade chocolate chip or her iced sour cream Christmas cookies (right out of the freezer!!!)

20. What's your ideal breakfast?
bit of egg, sausage, bacon, potato of some sort, good toast, lots of OJ...

21. What's your ideal sandwich?
One of my grilled cheese n meat sarnies

22. What's your ideal pizza (topping and base)?
Thin crust (almost New Yawk style), sauce, cheese (fresh smoked mozzarella, smoked provolone, and some jack), meat!, some herbals on top, and topped with Parmasiano Reggiano (the indisputed king of cheeses)

23. What's your ideal pie?
Chocolate cream

24. What's your ideal salad?
Red or green leaf lettuce, thinly sliced cukes, shredded carrot, some good dressing (Ken's Country French leaps to mind), croutons, maybe some bacon bits, and a few of those crunchy onion toppers...

25. What food do you always like to have in the fridge?
Cheese, deli meat, butter and soda

26. What food do you always like to have in the freezer?
Ice cream and something that I can nuke quickly for lunch or an on-my-own dinner

27. What food do you always like to have in the cupboard?
pasta and soup

28. What spices can you not live without?
Garlic, basil, paprika, salt, oregano, cilantro, dill... I know some of them are herbs, but what can you do?

29. What sauces can you not live without?
Mayonnaise, mustard, Worcestershire (both the regular and poultry kinds), and anything I make from broth/stock, soy, ponzu,...

30. Where do you buy most of your food?
Supermarkets mostly... Stop & Shop and Shaw's, primarily

31. How often do you go food shopping?
Once a week, maybe... typically it's what I call a "minor run"

32. What's the most you've spent on a single food item?
Gods, I don't know... maybe that $27 bottle of Courvoisier...

33. What's the most expensive piece of kitchen equipment you own?
No clue

34. What's the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen?
To be honest, I don't recall. We received quite a few as either Christmas or wedding gifts, it's tough to tell... probably the stir-fry pan or the cast-iron skillet that I haven't seasoned or used yet...

35. What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without?
All of them

36. How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients?
Most of the time, unless it's a "scrounge night"

37. What's the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients?
Chicken breasts with a nice sauce from broth, white worcestershire and ponzu... rice pilaf...

38. What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig and poultry?
Buffalo, venison...

39. What's the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor?
You mean I actually miss my mouth?

40. What's the last time you ate something you'd picked in the wild?
Never, I haven't foraged... unless apple-picking counts, then that was years upon years ago...

41. Place in order of preference (greatest to least):
Chinese, Sushi (Typically I don't eat them, but I count it as more Japanese cuisine overall), Thai, Indian, Mexican, French

42. Place in order of preference:
Vodka, Whiskey, Brandy, Rum... I've not had tequila or gin, ever...

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

44. Place in order of preference:
Apple, banana, orange, cherry... Strawberry, watermelon and pineapple I don't eat...

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46. Bread and spread:
Fresh warm bread with good butter... or that garlic and herb pub cheese...

47. What's your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order?
They're all the same, really... though as of late, I think of Chinese takeaway as fast food...

48. Pick a city. What are the three best dining experiences you've had there?
Thing is, I can't answer that, as I hate having to rate things... Plus I can't think of what would be a "best" dining experience, as each one has its own nuances...

49. What's your choice of tipple at the end of a long day?
Just something cold and wet, not necessarily alcoholic... though lately I've been tempted by whiskey n Coke or a vodka sour...

50. What's the next thing you'll eat?
Lunch, not sure what as yet...

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[volare.livejournal.com]

well it's not technically Worcester, but if I had to vote for a native specialty it'd be the venerable Hot Dog Annie's!