Anyone who knows me knows how much I love surveys. I feel the same as the fellow blogger that I got this vegan survey from. It's not so much answering as it is reading what others answer. I got this one from fellow blogger Bazu from Where's The Revolution http://wherestherevolution.blogspot.com/. I've inserted my answers so feel free to do this survey on your blog or comment and insert a few of your own answers!
1. Favorite non-dairy milk? Pacific Hazlenut Milk. In a bowl of cereal this tastes so luxurious. Now that I’ve switched to nut milks I don’t even miss real milk
2. What are the top 3 dishes/recipes you are planning to cook? I want to try my fellow blogger Bazu’s sourdough starter for thanksgiving. Also want to try a butternut squash risotto for thanksgiving and I really want to learn to can and make my own preserves/jam
3. Topping of choice for popcorn? Rosemary infused olive oil and a little salt, yummy
4. Most disastrous recipe/meal failure? My mother in law’s Pasta sauce. The recipe is my husbands family recipe from his grandmother in Italy. My 1 attempt turned out horrible and I had such guilt about it I have not tried it since.
5. Favorite pickled item? Definitely pickled beets
6. How do you organize your recipes? Hmmm does on my cookbook shelf in piles count as organized???
7. Compost, trash, or garbage disposal? We produce very little trash, we recycle or compost nearly everything and don’t use our garbage disposal much
8. If you were stranded on an island and could only bring 3 foods...what would they be (don't worry about how you'll cook them)? Brown rice (you could mix sweet or savory things with rice) chocolate chip cookies (in order to be happy on a deserted island I have to have cookies) tortillas (I could not go without Mexican food)
9. Fondest food memory from your childhood? Thanksgiving dinners…my mom does the best thanksgiving
10. Favorite vegan ice cream? Unfortunately I am not a huge ice cream eater….I know it’s criminal isn’t it?? I have many other weaknesses.
11. Most loved kitchen appliance? This is a toughie, I love my kitchen aid mixer, it’s so helpful and it’s yellow and cute too!
12. Spice/herb you would die without? Fresh basil and Rosemary, they make me happy just smelling them
13. Cookbook you have owned for the longest time? I basically started cooking when I got married, I know I know how cliché so most of my cookbooks are newer. Out of all of them I use my Alex Jamieson book w/ recipes the most
14. Favorite flavor of jam/jelly? Blackberry
15. Favorite vegan recipe to serve to an omni friend? Vegan chocolate chip cookies
16. Seitan, tofu, or tempeh? tempeh
17. Favorite meal to cook (or time of day to cook)? I love cooking dinners, big 3 – 5 course dinners
18. What is sitting on top of your refrigerator? Bread box
19. Name 3 items in your freezer without looking. Frozen berries for the winter, frozen chocolate chip cookie dough (shocker right) lemoncello (from our trip to Italy)
20. What's on your grocery list? Right now it’s all about Thanksgiving
21. Favorite grocery store? Well since I live in KC right now it’s whole foods but when we move to Syracuse I’m hoping it to be the Syracuse Real Food Co Op
22. Name a recipe you'd love to veganize, but haven't yet. Not a recipe but I’d like to make a good vegan Mexican feast
23. Food blog you read the most Cookin In the Cuse and Where’s The Revolution (they have both given me hope there is foodies in CNY
24. Favorite vegan candy/chocolate? Gummy bears
25. Most extravagant food item purchased lately? Date sugar, for some reason no one in Missouri uses it so it is super expensive at the one store that sells it
26. Veganaise or Nayonaise? I’d have to go with Nayonaise, my sister even got my dad to try it
27. What is one recipe or ingredient or cooking technique that you've become familiar with in the last year that you can't imagine you ever lived without?Date Sugar, I love saying buh bye to white sugar!
28. What chef or cookbook has inspired you to be a better cook?
Bar none Mario Batali, after going to Italy he is the closest to cooking like they do as far as chefs go
29. Make up your own question to put here (and answer it!)
"If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life"
Howard Lyman
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6 comments:
Yay for more surveys! I have the stacking piles methods of recipe organizing, too. scraps of paper, notebooks, cookbooks, recipe cards...all piled together. Glad I'm not the only one!
My life's goal is to someday actually MAKE all of those recipes!
I love reading these surveys, and I especially loved your answers because a) we have a lot in common and b) we need more foodies in Syracuse, so you have to hurry up and get here!
I've been experimenting with date sugar too- I used it in the caramel portion of peach upside down cake the other day, and it came out really well. And, I love Alex Jamieson's book as well- I really learned a lot form it to apply to everyday life. (Last January and February, Daiku and I did about 6 weeks of her detox, and I'm thinking of doing that again)
P.S. Daiku is originally from Missouri, but St. Louis. I've never been to KC except for the airport. Next summer, I'll be spending a week there, so I'll be hitting you up for advice!
Bazu we can't wait to get to Syracuse as well. I can give you some great KC/Missouri suggestions as well, we have several great vegetarian restaurants only serving local/organic ingredients.
Hey, I'd love to hear your KC advice! Could you email me at bazooq (at) gmail ?
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