Four Foods On Friday #99

1. How do drink your hot chocolate? Marshmallows? From boxed or scratch?
I try to make it from scratch every so often because it tastes so much better, but I also have some Godiva hot chocolate on hand that is a good substitute for scratch. I like mine with whipped cream or marshmallows, depending on my mood. :yummy;

2. Do you prefer cider hot or cold?
Cold.

3. Do you like egg nog?
Yes, every once in a while. I find that if I buy a pint of it, though, I never drink the entire container; one or two small glasses is usually enough, then I am good on it for the rest of the season, lol.

4. How do you make punch?
We used to make punch all of the time on New Years Eve at my house using lemon-lime soda, fruit punch, frozen fruit, and a container of sherbert.

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Four Foods On Friday #98

1. How many cookbooks do you have? (1-10, 11-20, 20+)
Oh man, probably more than 20. (Speaking of, I’ve been looking for my Bon Appetit cookbook – the newer one with the orange cover, I think it’s a 25th anniversary edition or something – but I can’t find it. I think it’s in a box somewhere from when we moved, and I never unpacked it.)

2. Where do you keep your large utensils (such as slotted spoons, spatulas, etc)?
In drawers. I had my drawers neatly organized and arranged, but they are in complete chaos right now.

3. What is your countertop made of?
Not sure. Formica, I think.

4. Do you use canisters in your kitchen?
I have big Tupperware tubs for things like flour, sugar, etc. but I’d love to buy some nicer-looking ceramic or acrylic plastic canisters with hinges one of these days.

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Four Foods on Friday #92

1. Name something you like with pumpkin in it.
Pumpkin is amazing in so many things. Pumpkin ravioli, pumpkin bisque, pumpkin rolls (pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting, rolled up like a jelly roll)… yum.

2. Name an orange food you like.
Sweet potatoes. I love eating them baked and topped with butter, brown sugar, salt and pepper.

3. What’s your favorite color/flavor of licorice?
Twizzler has all sorts of different “rainbow” flavours now that are pretty yummy, but I am still fond of the regular cherry variety.

4. What’s your favorite hot beverage at Halloween?
Coffee, but then again that’s something I drink year-round. I can’t say that there is a “seasonal” beverage I drink during Halloween.

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“I Want….” Wednesday #52

What do you want to do outside?

I like to notice the progression of summer into fall and start enjoying the early-Fall weather as the season slowly sets in. Admittedly, I’m not a huge fan of summer, and fall is my favourite time of the year; it’s good snuggling weather, hehe… We’re about that time now where it’s not necessary to wear heavy sweaters everyday (maybe every few days when it’s particularly chilly in the early morning or late afternoon); light layers are good for the most part and flip-flops are still ok to wear on some days. I’m not a person who wears flip-flops in the late fall or middle of the winter, though. When I’ve been bundled up in long-sleeved layered shirts, jeans, legwarmers and/or knee high socks, and boots on some particularly frigid days in December, I’ve seen kids around campus walking around in basketball shorts and Old Navy flip-flops like it’s March and we’re on spring break. Sound crazy? I think so, considering that extremities get cold the fastest and one can easily develop a cold from persistently having exposed feet, hands, or head- so I’ve learned from experience.

In a few weeks when the temperature has dropped more and the leaves are noticeably different in color, I wanna take a walk around somewhere with my sweetie and look at the trees. (I, unfortunately, can’t do this now in my area because there isn’t a hell of a lot to look at yet; the leaves have just barely changed on some of the trees.) Then, when the leaves fall and the trees are bare, I want to go outside and roll around in the fallen leaves like I used to do when I was a kid.

“I Want….” Wednesday

I’m posting three weeks worth of questions here.

#47
What do you want to do more often with your significant other (or best friend, if you’re single)?

There’s a lot of things I’d like to do with him, but if I had to pick one I would probably have to say travel more. It’s nice to get away from the bullshit of everyday life and visit somewhere different.

#46
What do you want to undo that you have already done?

If I could start college all over again, I would either go to culinary school or major in psychology. In theory, it is never too late to change, but at this point it would be a major, and costly, setback for me. Plus, there’s nothing stopping me from taking some cooking classes or brushing up my cooking skills at any point in time, or using my future degree in business to get into restaurant management or ownership.

#45
What do you want to happen faster? Slower?

In an odd sense, I have mixed feelings on the idea of going back to school in a few weeks… so I guess you could say that school is something I am both looking forward to and not looking forward to. I am looking forward to having something to do again, since this summer was relatively unproductive and uneventful. I am not looking forward to all of the driving back and forth, and the work involved with assignments and whatnot.